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Time Travel: Dodgers prepare to face Giants

Test your lung capacity by reading aloud this 98-word sentence: JUNE 3, 1947 – “The Dodgers’ cousins from up the river, the Manchester Giants, invade Holman Stadium tonight and the single contest, which gets started at the new time, 8:15 o’clock, should be a dandy with the ...

No margin for error from humble scribe

Tourney time again. Wait, didn’t we just enjoy that? No, that was a good while ago, over two months when the local winter season ended when Hollis Brookline-Derryfield fell short in the Division III hockey semis at Plymouth State. Who knows, we could be headed back up to Plymouth soon for ...

Time Travel: Aces galore for local golfers

For openers, A few of those golden moments every golfer dreams of: MAY 27, 1987 – “The ninth hole at Whip-Poor-Will Golf and Country Club in Hudson was a lucky one for two area golfers this week. “On Tuesday, Dick Millard used a 5-iron for his first hole-in-one. His playing partners ...

Sabers’ Beliveau always about the players, and the passion

It was the middle of Friday's game with Bow and the Souhegan High School baseball team had relaxed somewhat after jumping to an early lead that was now 5-3 at William Dod Field. Before the start of the bottom half of the inning, the players gathered for a bit of a conference with the coaching ...

Spring fading faster

Here’s a few tids and bits as we hit the final regular-season week for many spring high school sports, the start of the high school tennis tournament, and believe it or not, the opening of the Silver Knights season: Let’s start with some Silver Knights thoughts: – Hard to believe as we ...

Time Travel: Only prep schools stop Panthers

MAY 20, 1952 – From the desk of then-Telegraph sports editor Frank Stawasz: “Buzz Harvey’s baseball kiddies passed the halfway mark in their 1952 campaign over the weekend, dropping their second game in nine starts. This second defeat, by a respectable 2-0 margin, was chalked up by ...