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...meeting of the Baseball Advisory Committee, held at the Harvard Club last night, it was announced that Charles Lee Todd Jr. '26 of South Lincoln, Massachusetts, had been awarded the Wendell Bat Baseball Trophy and Lewis Gordon '24 of Gloucester, Massachusetts, had been awarded the Wingate...
...stranger in the crowd could doubt t'was Casey at the bat...
...pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate...
...made Casey, the hamball-player, famous is sick of him. The act that has made audiences all over the world for 36 years go wild, is a deadly automatic performance for the genius who created it. The thrill of the first recital of "Casey at the Bat" repeated in almost every large city in the United States, has disappeared and it is now a matter of dull routine...
Ernest Laurence Thayer '85, leaving Harvard with William Randolph Hearst, accompanied the latter to California, where he worked under the father of the newspaperman, himself a great journalist. "Casey at the Bat", Mr. Thayer's masterpiece, was dashed off in a very short time as a space filler for the paper. It attracted little attention, until six, months later when it was brought east by Archibald C. Gunter, the well-known author, and given to Mr. Hopper, with the suggestion that he might some day be able to use it. "I was playing at the time at Wallack's Theatre...