Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...west of Detroit, exploded. Almost 200 of the prison's toughest convicts went wild in a disciplinary isolation block. Holding four guards as hostages, they wrecked their cell block, smashing everything in sight. Then, led by a robber named "Crazy" Jack Hyatt and an auto thief named Earl Ward, the rioting cons forced their way into other sections of the prison. They captured six more guards, swelled their forces to more than 2,500 with other released prisoners, some from hospital wards for the mentally dangerous...
Seizing control of half the prison yard and adjoining buildings, they burned down the laundry building, set fires in three others. Guards and state police surrounded the rioters with machine guns and shotguns. Shouting defiance across the prison yard, Ward held a knife at a guard's back as Crazy Jack warned: "We'll toss out a dead hostage if you start shooting." But as flying wedges of guards and troopers moved in, one convict was killed and eight others wounded under orders to shoot to kill if necessary...
...Andy Ward turned in his second fine pitching performance of the freshman baseball season. Saturday afternoon when he shut out Exeter, at Exeter, 2 to 0, on three hits. Ward, a big righthander who pitched a two hitter in his first outing against Boston Teacher College, had little trouble at Exeter, striking out 11 And walking only three...
...right-handed Andy Ward will probably de the pitching for the freshmen. Ward pitched a two hitter in the season's opener against Boston Teacher's College, but was hurt by wildness and poor support in his second outing, a 15 to 8 loss to the Brown freshmen...
Stuffy McInnis has Jack Donelan ready for the first game. A righthanded control pitcher, Donelan has not seen service so far this season. Either Bob Ward or Rufe Webb will get the starting assignment against the Lord Jeffs...