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...first time in the history of baseball at the University, the Wingate Cup and the Wendell Bat have been awarded to the same player. At a recent meeting of the Baseball Advisory Committee, it was decided that George Owen '23 of Newton, for three years first baseman of the University team and last year its captain, had earned the two awards by the excellence of his work on the diamond last spring...
...June 25, 1885, Detroit tried out a pitcher named Casey, but he was not mighty at bat and did not last the season through as a pitcher. A strike out by him would not have shocked the populace...
...Prior to the time that Casey at the Bat appeared, there were two other professional Caseys. One was Dan M., a pitcher with the Philadelphia Nationals for several years from 1886 on, and the other was Dennis, an outfielder with Baltimore in the Baltimore Association...
That was Casey at the Bat. The ball game was 38 years ago. And since then Casey has become a legendary figure like Paul Revere and the Village Blacksmith. Last week he came to life...
...respect, however, "The Cat and the Canary" fails as did its fellow, "The Bat". Both plays cry aloud for a solution from beginning to final denouement, but neither supplies a real clue from which the true secret can be deduced. In fact every effort is made to mislead the earnest spectator to a wrong conclusion. But this is an unimportant detail. Anyone who likes to spend an uneasy, riotous evening, and to observe the instability of his neighbor's equilibrium will do well to visit "The Cat and the Canary...