Word: battering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Billy Bayne, left-handed pitcher for the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association: a no-hit game, in which no batter got a base on balls; 8-to-o against the Birmingham Barons; at Memphis. ¶ The Navy crew, using the shell with which the 1910 varsity won the Olympic Championship: the Adams Cup race, with Pennsylvania second by 1/5 sec. (about 3 ft.), Harvard third; on the Charles River, at Cambridge, Mass...
...spite of the fact that Coach Cariss has the best fielding team in the League, the best individual batter in Powel, and a moundsman who fanned 14 Harvard batters in the first game of the season which the Crimson won, 3-1, the Pennsylvania team has only an average of 200 in the league having taken only one victory in five games played...
...cooperate with the enemy, again anticipated an official U. S. move, this time by two years. At a League session to discuss world depression he proposed a pact to outlaw not only physical but economic war. Nub of the matter was an international agreement to refrain from dumping, to batter down all discriminatory tariff walls, and to require the sale of products on home markets at prices no higher than those demanded for the same products abroad. Most observers expect something very like the first two points to emerge from the World Economic Conference now brewing in conversations at Washington...
Gleason and McCaffrey added two more hits to knock the Princeton twirler out of the box, Wilson taking his place. With the bases filled, Follansbee muffed the first pitched ball letting Nevin come home, while Gleason went to third and McCaffrey moved up to second. The next batter, Hines, reached first, but Gleason was caught between third and home. A double steal enabled McCaffrey to score the Crimson's fifth tally. On the shortstop's error Sargent was safe at first, and Hines scored from second when Neel threw wild to the first baseman. Loughlin, coming...
...first, the Yankees two. When his teammates had tied the score in the third, Warneke walked Ruth and let Gehrig single. Then, to fill the bases for a force play, he walked Dickey. It was sound strategy but it did not work. Chapman, next batter, smashed the first pitch for a sharp single to right. scoring two runs. Warneke was steady after that, except for a few moments in the fifth, but Gomez was steadier. Score for the game was New York 5, Chicago 2. Score for the pitchers: Gomez, 8 strikeouts. 9 hits, i walk; Warneke. 7 strikeouts...