Word: bases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College baseball is 80 years old and so feeble that it has to be supported by colege football, ten years its junior. Once considered attractive enough to lure crowds of 15,000 to 20,000, college base-)all now attracts only 3,000 or 4,000 specators to its big games. Why this hoary U. S. sport has been snubbed by undergraduates and alumni, no two college men gree. But baseball experts have not ignored college baseball. In its rosters major-league scouts have found many a man for their clubs' lineups...
Harrison's pitching was the high point of the game. He issued only one base on balls and set the Crimson nine down with only four hits...
Ever since roly-poly Howard Hopson was caught lobbying against the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, nothing so delights official Washington as seeing his vast Associated Gas & Electric Co. caught off-base. SEC is trying to delist A. G. & E. stock from the New York Curb Exchange because of alleged "false and misleading" statements in its prospectus. Last week its investigation turned up a choice tidbit which SEC promptly speared...
...first base is Hank Doyle, the Gold Coaster contribution to the inner quartet. Doyle had a close call there for this post, because most of the League first sackers were about equal in ability...
...Cornell Sophomore was master of the situation at all times as he throttled the powerful Harvard attack completely, yielding but four base hits and never allowing a runner to reach third. In fact, only twice did the Stahlmen get men as far as second base, and on both occasions two men had already been retired...