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...Japsers eleven, center and left field on the basketball and baseball teams. The Chief finds that "Pro ball is harder, rougher and tougher than college ball." He also recalled that he got very nervous before each game, but that "it went away after the first contact." The biggest thrill in his Pro career came in a game in '39 with the college All-Stars, when he completed seven of nine passes and ripped off a 40-yard...
...long inland arm of San Francisco Bay the ships came to the naval magazine at Port Chicago, a cheerless town sprawling under dusty trees. The 1,500 citizens watched them come & go incuriously; after the novelty wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
Last spring at the New England A.A.U. meet, he climaxed his schoolboy career by leaping 12 ft., 53/3 in. for a new Exeter Academy vault record. He considers this a bigger thrill than his 12 ft., 6 in. tie for third in the National Junior A.A.U. championships at Randall's island, New York...
...biggest thrill," said our affable southerner, "came when I hit my first major league homer off Yank Terry in Boston. There was one man on, and that won the ball game." "Crash" will also mention with pleasure his three hits off Ruffing in the opener of the '41 season at the Yankee Stadium...
...years, was named in his Junior year as all-state first baseman, and in this year, runner-up to Newton's Johnny Recco, recently signed by the New York Yankee farm system. Coulson has played in two all-scholastic state tourneys at Braves Field, but thinks his biggest thrill came last spring against Beverly, when he hit for the cycle, clouting a single, double, triple, and home-run. When asked about college play, he answered that he thinks the step from secondary school to a college diamond is a big one, and that college pitching is particularly tougher...