Word: back-stop
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With the graduation of the two regular catchers, Mitchell will need considerable time to develop a first team back-stop. Paul Doyle, Varsity understudy last year, and Elli Bacon of the Jayvees are returning...
...last of the sixth, as the result of three line drives to center field. The success was only momentary, for Lafayette brought in three more runs when with two men on bases Gazella knocked out a home run that did not stop until it reached the Freshman back-stop, placing Lafayette in the lead for the first time during the contest...
...defense men of the Crimson sextet should have the best of the Eli back line, as both J. Stubbs '20 and Captain N. S. Walker, Jr., '20, have played brilliant hockey throughout the season. In goal, J. Holmes, Jr., '21, has been a consistently efficient back-stop, letting nothing that could be stopped get by him. Day, the Yale goal, played as a substitute during the Canadian trip, while Walker played regularly in that position. The forward lines should balance each other, as both E. L. Bigelow '21 and Captain Ingalls of the Yale team have shown up brilliantly...
...device is a large padded back-stop about six feet square, cut by a hole at a height which would represent a strike on an average batter. A record is kept every afternoon of the performance of each pitcher...
...line-up of the Lampoons will be: Ybarra, pitcher; Muir, keg-keeper; Sturgis, back-stop; Collings, assistant back-stop; Greenfield, outfield; Green, farther outfield; Peck, catcher (?): Welldon, short-stopped; May, but probably...