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Homerun--Weintraub, Sacrifices--Prior 2, Lange. Stolen bases--Loos, Nebelung. Bases on balls--off Whitmore 3, off McAfee 2. Struck out--by McAfee 9, by Whitmore 3. Hit by pitcher--by Whitmore (Lange). Balk--Whitmore. Left on bases--Michigan 6, Harvard 4. Umpires--Green and Richardson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOMERUN IN NINTH GIVES VICTORY TO WOLVERINES, 3 TO 1 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...base hits--Burns. Donaghy, Jones, Lincoin. Home runs--Barbee, Donaghy, Jones. stolen bases--Burns 2, Chase. Hardie, Nugent, Lincoln Sacrifice hits Burns, Nugent, Struck out--by Barbee 9; by Means, 1; by Cole, 1, Base on balls, off Means S; off Cole, 27. Balk Barbee. Wild pitches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE OVERWHELMS BOWDOIN, 21 TO 3 | 5/2/1928 | See Source »

Here Latins balk. They hark back to Liberty and Equality-Liberty to stage their own parlor revolutions if they choose. Equality with a Great Power which is simply not their equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pan-American | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Balk is current nomenclature of two sports. Baseball pitchers make a false motion to throw (called a balk); opponents are allowed to advance one base. Not so in billiards. In high class championship play, lines on the green cloth tablebed are drawn parallel to and 18 inches from the cushions. When two of the object balls are driven into any of the eight spaces bounded by these lines and the rectangles of their intersection such balls are "in balk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cue & Cushion | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Famed championships are played at 18.2 balkline. This means only one carom (popularly called billiard) can be scored until one of the object balls is driven out of balk; on the second carom one object ball must cross the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cue & Cushion | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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