Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick MacKinnon was very strong in the nets, turning away thirty shots, his high for the season. Many of the shots, however, were pure gifts by the defense, which obviously missed Jim Herscot's steadying hand, a hand badly sprained against Dartmouth. The clearing was wild and haphazard, and dropped balls in front of the cage resulted in one easy Tufts goal and three near-misses...
...Chance speedster. But reading race charts is a cold-blooded business. Sentimentalists liked Silky, the brawny, unkempt boy from the West; hunch players loved him for his heart-stopping habit of hanging back, far off the pace, and coming on in the final seconds to overhaul horses in a wild scramble up the stretch...
...particularly object to chrome and wild colors," says Alexander P. Gest Jr., president of the small Mitchel Oil Corp. in Mamaroneck, N.Y. "But the thing I can't stand is that you can't tell the present-day cars apart. They all look alike. I honestly can't tell a Plymouth from a Cadillac when they go by fast...
...varsity scored again in the second on an infield hit by John Davis, an error, a wild pitch, and a sacrifice...
...Terriers tied the score in the sixth; but two innings later the Crimson bunched a couple of singles with a B.U. error and a wild pitch, to retake the lead, 4 to 2. The varsity's last two runs came in the ninth without benefit of a hit. This final B.U. gift was compounded of three walks, another wild pitch, and another error by the catcher...