Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tight pitching by Captain Woodruff of Amherst and Crawley of Springfield has reduced the batting average of the University squad during the period since the Bowdoin game. At that time, the Crimson stick-men were meeting the ball for an average of .267, but the light hitting that has featured the last two encounters has reduced this figure to .250, or one bingle for each four journeys to the plate...
Eighteen men of the ball squad left last night for Philadelphia, and will practice today in preparation for tomorrow afternoon's game. Either Booth or Barbee will be on the mound for the University Saturday afternoon, while Long, flashy captain of the Pennsylvania nine, will probably pitch for the Red and Blue...
Continuing their heavy hitting activities and aided by ragged fielding in the inner defense of the visiting team, the Freshman ball tossers ran their season record of straight victories to six, with a 12 to 7 win over. Deerfield Academy on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Malloy took up the pitching duties, while Ketchum rested after turning back the Brown sluggers last Tuesday, and he kept the situation well in hand with the exception of the sixth and last innings when the school boys bunched seven of their eight hits to score seven markers. The Crimson moundman retired eight...
After counting once in the initial frame, the 1929 squad bombarded Cole, the Deer-field hurler with four hits in the third, and chased five runs across the plate. In the following session the Freshmen continued their scoring when Durkee was hit by a pitched ball, Prior and McGehee walked, and Elkins and Dewing connected safely. The visitors came back in the first of the sixth with four runs. Cole was hit by Malloy at the plate, and Wilson, Black, and Ensign, the next three men to face the Freshman twirler planted safe blows the last man to hit scoring...
Puffer did relief work in the Yale series last spring and is the only letterman on Coach Mitchell's mound staff. He is said to possess the most deceptive curve ball of any of the Crimson hurlers, but last year his control was none too good. In his one start this year, he showed a complete reversal of form, and held the C. U. hitters to four hits in the eight innings that he toiled. He was removed for a pinch hitter at that time, and not because of the pressure of the opposing stickmen, though he lost the decision...