Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOUSE BALL TEAM...
Lutz's battery mate, Bob Gorham, was another reason for the success of the Adams nine. Catching was a rather weak department in House ball this spring, and Gorham stands head and shoulders above his circuit rivals. For Lowell, it was a smooth working infield and a good deal of batting punch which was instrumental in winning the title and the right to journey to New Haven tomorrow to play the Eli standard bearer...
...shortstop Joe Lyford of Lowell and Charley Carr of Kirkland are two of the classiest ball players in the League. Smooth-working Carr barely gets the nod over hard-hitting Lyford for the post, but the latter is ton good a ballplayer to be omitted from the lineup. Therefore, Lyford goes over to third to edge out a fast-improving teammate, Bellboy Robin Scully, by the slimmest of margins. Scully's stickwork was weak until the last few games of the year but then he came up with a bang...
...soon moved up to No. 2, where the efforts of all of his opponents produced only one halved match. Graves took all the others, but he had to work for some of them. Graves and No. 1 man Ace Cordingley form a very strong best ball due; they play together almost every day with the usual amount of side bets. To Graves Cordingley is "hunker"; to Cordingley, Graves is "meaty." Fair-haired Bob is a former Minnesota Junior title-holder, but he has never won his state amateur crown. This year he gets a real chance as the championship...
There the home boys broke a 6 to 6 deadlock by using a walk, a ball, a freak fleider choice, and an error to manufacture a run. In the seventh the Crimson had finally overcome their four un deficit when Gane Lovett's liner got away from Holy Cross' right fielder, Ray Monaco, and let four Harvard runs rickle across the plate...