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...expense of the amazed Pennsylvanian pitcher and catcher, the alert Crimson baserunners marked up a third tally in the sixth. Frankie Owen hit sharply to the left garden, stole second and wound up at third when the Quaker backstop tossed one into centerfield. Johns walked and so effectively rattled Jeffers that he reached the middle sack as Owen slid home on the pitcher's balk...
...start his usual lineup with the exception of left field and catcher. Dave Shean will again cover the left garden in place of Reino Grondahl, who is out with a cold, while either Phil Staples or Paul Doyle will catch in the absence of the ailing Al Colwell, regular backstop...
Harvard has seven lettermen back from its 1933 season, and two of them are still handicapped by injuries. They are Captain Eddie Loughlin and Paul deGive, pitchers; Charley Nevin, backstop of last year; Frank Gleason, Charley Sargent and Craig Woodruff, infielders; and Johnny Ware, centre fielder. And of that group, only Ware is certain of starting this afternoon...
...three teams will practice in the new 50-75 foot range in the basement of Memorial Hall, where one steel backstop has already been erected by Major Henry C. Jones of the Military Science Department. Major Jones will also coach the Military Science Rifle Team. Commander R. C. Williams, U.S.N., of the Naval Science Department, plans to increase the number of shooting lanes in the basement...
...service. But Russia is double-tracking at breakneck speed and, while it does, 200,000 Red troops guard the border from Lake Baikal to Vladivostok. Mean while contemplated under the Second Five-Year Plan is another transcontinental line running from Archangel to the Sea of Okhotsk, as a military backstop in case Japan does cut the Trans-Siberian...