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...players perhaps the key man in Munro's plans is creaseman Ned Yost, who is replacing Dick Bezansan. Though Hans Estin, a feeder, was the high scorer last year, as creaseman, Yost will probably do most of the scoring and will act as screener for the mid-field shots. Yost was high scorer for the Yardlings last year, and showed himself particularly well adapted to the long crosse...
...slope to watch the plays he directed in a miniature theater built in his garden. Village neighbors thronged to his square-dance classes. When not busy with these enterprises, Masefield still kept busy writing. More than a dozen novels, including The Box of Delights (1935), Live and Kicking Ned (1939) and Bas-ilissa (1940), poured from his pen, but his great days as a poet were past. "The office of Poet Laureate," Masefield himself once admitted, "is responsible for much of the world's worst literature...
...hurling when it went on TV in 1947. Since then it has played to sellout audiences, 90% of whom first saw it over TV. Wrestling, too, had a sweaty, dying pallor until it was hurried onto TV as an inexpensive fillin. So astounding was its success that when Promoter Ned Irish put a wrestling match into Madison Square Garden last month, he grossed over $50,000-$10,000 more than any boxing card had drawn all season. Said Irish: "At least 40% of the customers were women-there's nothing you can attribute it to but television...
Members of the first team were Brown, Ray Suttle, Michael Safe, Howard Reed, and the late John Moses. Second team competitors were James Eyre, Ned Eyre, Chris Grant, Colin Cameron, and Bill Saltonstall...
...started it, we two, and here we are today, playing the game that was once all things to all men and is now nothing to anyone but us. We had Pudge Heffelfinger and Walter Camp, P. D. Haughton and Ned Mahan, and we were Kings together in those days. Today we have four victories between...