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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...
Advance predictions give Eli by far the best of the returning material. The seventy-odd candidates for the Blue nine will find only two positions left vacant by graduation, those of Mallory behind the bat and of Captain O'Hearn at first base. The pitching force is especially strong with Captain Pond, Ashburn, and Scott from last year's teams. Practically the entire 1927 team has reported this year...
...likeness of a black cone. The air thinned, darkened, the sea cowered beside the ship; Jonah slept. Suddenly, the sail split from top to bottom and one mariner, huddled with the rest, called on the name of his god in a voice shrill and little like a bat's; next instant, with a great clap, the sky fell into...