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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Hodge, who started against the University team last year but who was removed from the box after he had passed the first man to face him, will be in the box today. He pitched first class ball at New Haven earlier in the season but lost the game on account of the poor support from his team mates. In Captain Swain on third and Ainslee on second base, the visitors have two of the best infielders in collegiate baseball. Swain is also a heavy hitter, and on former occasions has caused considerable uneasiness for the Harvard pitchers...
Both sides fielded in sensational manner. In the eight, Dike hit a hard one to centre field which was labeled for three bases but by a fine burst of speed Milholland caught the ball with his glove hand. It was one of the most sensational catches ever seen on Andrews Field. Ormsby, the Brown right fielder per- formed at similar feat earlier in the game...
Capatin Wingate and Clark also played air tight ball in the field, the former marking several sensational stops of hard hit balls, headed for second base. Hardwick made the only error for Harvard when he droppee a fly in the first inning. Coach Sexton made only one change in the line-up, substituting Fripp for Hardwick in the middle of the game, after the latter had shown some difficulty in solving the deliveries of the Brown twirlers...
...Freshman baseball team lost its final game to Yale 1917 at New Haven last Saturday by the score of 2 to 0. The Freshmen outbatted Yale five hits to two, but Yale played errorless ball, while the Harvard misplays aided the scoring to a large extent...
...hitting of Neal and Enright counted heavily in Exeter's scoring. Neal's long home-run over the head of right-fielder Baker, who fielded the ball in extremely weird style, assured victory for the New Hampshire team...