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John P. (Stuffy) McInnis was born in Gloucester on September 19, 1890. When he was big enough to shoulder a baseball bat, he started playing ball. "Just as soon as the snow was off the streets," Stuffy explains, "we'd be out playing under the lights with a yarn ball our mothers would knit for us. When we knocked the yarn apart, we'd pull it back together with black tape." Stuffy did his share of the knocking. In fact, his nickname resulted from it. Whenever the youngster would make a hit or come up with a hard grounder...
...shortstop for Gloucester High, Stuffy blocked enough grounders and broke up enough ball games with his bat to get himself taken on by Haverhill of the New England League. Billy Madden, who managed the Beverly team and also scouted for Connie Mack, was so impressed by young McInnis' hitting ability that he persuaded him to join with Beverly. "My association with Harvard started then," says Stuffy. "The 1907 Beverly club had Eddic Grant, Bill Matthews, and Eddic Loughlin, all students at Harvard Law School...
Today the freshman racquets team will bat squash balls around the courts of Hemenway with Deerfield Academy in competition, but since it is undefeated in collegiate and scholastic play, Coach Corey Wynn is unworried...
...agreed that baseball playing was a matter of adaptaing one's individual reflexes to the various aspects of the game. People with good reflexes permitted to develop in their own peculiar way become good baseball players; those with bad coordination spend all their days trying to master a fungo bat...
...English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose and correct, but it would certainly split up the course into sections of comparable ability. Many students might start right off the bat with English Ab. Harried section men would find themselves successfully teaching a whole class, not part of one. And a lot of Freshmen would learn a great deal more from the College's largest course, now far too clumsy to dodder past anything but its required fundamentals...