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...Forward, my lads, sail on, for Death...
...proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo. At that point in June 1904, Czar Nicholas II decided on a last, desperate gamble to relieve the Russian forces; he ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports to the Sea of Japan, by way of the Cape of Good Hope. In this book London Editor Richard Hough tells how a fleet that should never have gone to sea made...
Lawrence H. Repsher '61 stood down in a darkened corner of the practice field next to a hulking Stadium wall. Fifty-five yards away Bruce B. McIntyre '61 was methodically booming the ball up into the blackness. Every third or fourht kick would sail over Repsher's head. One went eight yards...
...Navy later said the submarine would sail into her home port of New London, Conn., next Monday afternoon...
...Boston's talented, temperamental Ted Williams turned furious at a called third strike in a game with Washington, hurled his bat toward the dugout, saw it sail into the seats and strike a spectator, who turned out to be Mrs. Gladys Heffernan, housekeeper for Red Sox General Manager Joe Cronin. Mrs. Heffernan was bruised over the left eye. Forgiving Williams, Cronin explained: "The guy feels bad enough...