Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six-and-a-half innings of a low scoring game yesterday, the Varsity baseball team led Columbia, 3 to 0, at Soldiers Field. Then a Lion relief pitcher lost control, the Crimson made eight runs on one base hit, and Brendon Reilly, Varsity hurler, weakened in the ninth inning...
...freak plays accounted for the first two scores. Tellefson walked Captain Jack Forte and Billy Fitz, and then threw four balls to Walt Coulson. As Coulson trotted toward first, catcher Bill Swiacki made the customary throw to third base. The heave sailed into left field, and Forte scored. Then, with one out, Len Lunder lofted a foul fly to left field which Bruce Gehrke unaccountably caught, allowing Fitz to score easily after the putout...
...fifth, Billy Fitz singled sharply to right, and then circled the sacks when Chuck Klemovich allowed the ball to roll through his legs for a three-base error...
Defensively, the team's play has been highlighted by the work of John Coppinger, whose third base coverage has been consistently excellent. HARVARD COLUMBIA Forte, 2b Buckley, 3b Caulfield, cf Swiacki, W., c Fitz, 1b Borylo, ss Coulson, 1f Klemovich, 1b Lunder, rf Karas, 2b Mariaschin, ss Lolordo, rf Coppinger, 3b Hickerson, cf Hamlen, c Kasprzak, 1f Reilly, p Tellefson...
Catcher Cliff Crosby, following close behind his batterymate, Hansen, hammered out three safeties in four times at bat. Johnny Chase singled and doubled in three appearances, while Hal Moffie's double and Myles Huntington's triple rounded out the extra-base hitting...