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Guessing Game. Feller was finally ready for the first pitch. His arms heaved from below his knees to a great overhead stretch, his left leg twisted up & around, he practically put his gloved hand in the batter's face, his right arm snapped through with as much wrist English as though he were cracking a blacksnake whip. The Yankee lead-off man hardly saw the first one that buzzed by with a full two-inch...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock the team will meet the Tufts University nine, which has yet to win a game, at Soldiers Field. The Jumbos have lost of Northeastern, Bowdoin, Boston University, and Brown. Don Swegan, first string shortstop and the team's leading batter, was spiked in the first inning of the Quonset game but will start today's game. Joe Phelan, a former Marine who pitched for the Crimson in 1941 and 1942, is scheduled to do the hurling for the Stahlmen...
...sixth inning Wallace decided to make the game more even by handing out a run free of charge. He walked the first batter, Tom Barrett, then picked up Duke Duzukola's easy grounder and spoiled a double killing by heaving the pellet to Carlton in centerfield, Barrett and Duzukola advancing a base of course. Then came the first of two wild pitches, but Eckenroth's throw to Wallace was in time to catch Barrett coming home. On the next wild heave, which Wallace threw soon afterwards, they weren't quickly enough to nab Duzukola before he could cross the platter...
Jack Wallace just didn't have it. His usual speed and control were lacking as he struck out only one batter while walking for. He also was hit solidly for nine hits and allowed the plate to be dented five times...
...biggest threat that B.P.E. could muster was in the seventh inning, when they gathered two hits from "Lefty" Knowles, but Knowles settled down and struck out the next batter, putting the damper on the inning...