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...Crimson to end the game. With Nannigan on first as the result of Booth's only base on balls, Hammond hit sharply to Lord. Instead of touching first base, the Harvard infielder shot the ball to Ullman, whose return throw to Lord was in time to nip the batter for a double play and the final out of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE SMOTHERS MAINE UNDER HEAVY HITTING | 5/18/1927 | See Source »

...they soon must go to get in bed early so that they'll be in shape to give all they've got tomorrow for you. I want to hear you YELL tomorrow when they come on that field; I want to hear you YELL when that first Princetonian batter goes out in the first; and I want to hear you YELL from then on until the last Harvard man passes out in the ninth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAMMOTH RALLY GREETS FIGHTING CRIMSON HEROES | 5/7/1927 | See Source »

...berth, covers ground well, and has the strongest throwing arm of any man of the inner combination. William Ullman '27, another dependable player, holds down the keystone bag, and J. E. Tobin '27, keeper of the initial sack, is a fielder of parts and a strong but inconsistent batter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TERRIER NINE TO BATTLE CRIMSON | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...Anthony's Hospital last week, surgeons lifted his flabbiness as it spread, like a batter of yeasted dough, over his hips and thighs. Then they cut* ?two curving slashes to form an ellipsis almost three feet long horizontally across his abdomen. This released a section of skin and fat that looked most like a slice of a huge pumpkin. It weighed (with other scoopings of fat) 31 pounds, and left a yellow gap across Mr. Phillips's belly, which the surgeons promptly closed by lifting flesh up off the thighs and nether parts to the steadier waist line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apron | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Last week Samuel Breadon, owner of the world's champion St. Louis baseball "Cardinals," traded Rogers Hornsby, player-manager, called "the greatest batter in baseball" to the New York Giants for Frank Frisch, the second baseman, and a right-handed pitcher named James Ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hornsby Traded | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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