Word: bat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carlson, who has been an outfielder for three years has been shifted by Coach Gaw at the last minute to replace Crocker behind the bat. Carlson has had experience as a backstop, and with the recovery of Lawless, who has been out of the game with an injured shoulder, it was decided to have Carlson catch this afternoon instead of Crocker, a Freshman. Lawless will take Carlson's place in the outfield...
Henry Chauncey, for five years first baseman and pitcher on the Groton School nine, is being tried behind the bat this year. The other men who are retained as catchers are D. P. Donaldson from Andover, and R. W. Turner, from Worcester Academy...
Apparently Freshmen were chastened in purse as well as in spirit, for rule number nine reads, "Freshmen are to find the rest of the scholars with bats and balls and footballs." This does not mean, as many Freshman of today might leap to conclude, that they had to seek out their mentors with bat and ball. It merely explains that they were expected to supply their superiors with such articles upon demand...
Lovejoy and Hinchliffe, substitute catchers last season, are fighting for the place behind the bat, with two of last year's Freshmen, Barclay and Walker, not far behind...
...none such might bring out an American Chauve-Souris which could tour Europe with notable success; but nobody would listen to it, though their eyes might burst in wonder, for only in Russia could he find such voices as those that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone, to that epitome of Slavdom, the resonance of a Russian bass--all were perfection in every register; a complete organ...