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...bare essentials of baseball include a bat, a ball and eighteen men. Everything else is superfluous. But, superfluous or not, a funny bone and a what may be modestly referred to as a certain degree of journalistic acumen do combine to make what would otherwise be merely another baseball game something over which to wax ecstatic, and occasion for dancing in the streets, in short, an Epocin. And when the Epoch is one of an annual series, stretching back into infinity--or thereabouts--the result approaches that which young girls loosely term an experience...
Coach Mitchell shifted the Harvard batting order by interchanging J. P. Chage '28 and W. B. Jones '28. The change yesterday did not prove anything, for Chase justified his promotion by banging out a home run that scored Booth ahead of him, while Jones showed his indignation at having to bat in eighth place by connecting for a triple and a single...
...decades ago, over beer mugs, undergraduates told stories of the star fullback who found $100 bills under his door after each game and of the agile shortstop who played baseball on Sunday and who was wagered $50 he could not jump over a bat. But today, such practices are supposed to be extinct...
Only two characters in this second novel of Miss Warner's assume any importance--Mr. Fortune and his maggot--Lueli. Lueli is a youth who is the literary counterpart of the cinematic "Moana". He is lithe, graceful, ingratiating, childlike--and quite pagan. Worse than any vampire bat, he destroys Mr. Fortune's placidity; he creates have in a heart which had thought itself immune from any emotion except a fervent hatred for the world, the flesh and the devil. His innocence precludes any anger and his simplicity demands friendship. As Mr. Fortune's man Friday he wanders through the book...
...Prescott '27 and R.T. Smith '27 will cover center and right field respectfully. Both men are known as fast, they throw well, and bat from either side of the plate, in the same inning if necessary...