Word: battering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mills whom Republicans expect to batter down the "Smiling Al" legend. At the convention Mr. Mills aimed his key-note speech at the extravagance of the Smith regime. Said he: "The Governor is a great politician and, like all artists supreme in their lines, he comes high. I venture to say, in fact, that if he is to preside over our destinies for another two years, the people of this State will come to realize that 'the Sidewalks of New York' is for them the most expensive tune ever written...
Hornsby, as everyone knows, was champion batter of the National League for 1920-21-22-23-24-25. Rousch (Cincinnati) onetime leader of the National League is now batting a mild .324. Ty Cobb (Detroit), Tris Speaker (Cleveland) and George Sisler (St. Louis) are three onetime American League champions of whom much is always expected. Sisler and Speaker are having bad years (.317 and .291 respectively) and twelve-time Champion Cobb (with .329) is doing none too well...
...physical culturists have shown only mediocre pitching and very little hitting strength, though in the latter respect they outhit Amherst 10 to 5. In Minikin they possess a clean-up batter of no mean efficacy, for in eleven trips to the plate he has slashed out no less than seven hits of assorted sizes. Either Crowley or Beach will toe the rubber against the Crimson this afternoon, the latter having the only Springfield verdict to his credit...
Knowlton, recently cut from the University squad, has replaced Field as the team's clean-up batter and has replaced Flood at second base. Cozzens, pitcher and utility man on the Freshman team of a year ago, has replaced Morris in center field, and Nash will toe the rubber in place of Moseley. Except for these shifts the team will face St. Anselm in the same order as it faced Exeter...
...view, and assisted by the Bowdoin team and a high wind, the Crimson outfit marked up six tallies in the opening canto. As far as winning the contest goes, these runs were entirely wasted, for John Barbee was in fine fettle, both on the slab and as a batter. His single manufactured the only run that Harvard needed to win, as his good right arm yielded but three infield hits to the invaders. No Brunswicker reached second base, and only four left spike marks on the first sack...