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...first two-man triple play in college baseball ranks this season marked the otherwise loosely-played Dean Academy-Harvard Seconds game, which the invaders won by the score of 6 to 2. With a man on first and second, the batter hit a line drive to T. G. O'Neil '30, second baseman, who touched second and threw to first for the third putout...
Coach Mitchell will probably start practically the same team which has acquitted itself so well in all the contests to date J. A. Prior '29 the team's leading batter so far, at first base, F. E. Nugent '29 at second, E. H. McGrath '31 at shortstop, and Captain E. G. Donaghy '29 at third will in all probability comprise the Harvard infield, while B. H. Bassett '31, B. H. Ticknor '31 and either T. W. Gilligan '31 or E. R. Todd '29 will tend the further reaches of the outfield. Whether R. R. Ketchum '29 or W. H. MacHale...
Shiny, sanitary and serene are Childs' restaurants, home of white table tops, of gleaming nickel, of starched waitresses. In the windows, immaculate young ladies flip purest batter-cakes to the attraction, the invitation, of passersby. Old or new Childs' restaurants are superficially models of efficiency, of smoothness, of business divorced from friction...
...arriving safely, or shrill furious ones when they are tagged. The terminology of baseball in Japan is identical with that in the U. S.; it is strange to hear the hordes of rooters, their eyes swimming with suspense, abusing pitchers in their own tongue but calling on the batter to ''swat a homer...
...pitchers from taking their turns, the chances are that managers would discover some player short on brains and fielding prowess, but able to hit them far and frequently, who would stay on the roster as a hitter and nothing else, to the exclusion of the pitcher from the batter...