Word: batting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fielding. Captain Driggs, Tibbott and Lee, among the veterans of the 1916 team who will in all probability play this spring, stood respectively second, third and fifth in the list of the team's hitting averages last year. There are three other candidates for the nine who all bat in the neighborhood of 300. The weakness of the 1916 squad in batting was noticeable, but so far this year there has been encouraging improvement in the department...
...University baseball squad was treated to its second practice game of the season in the cage yesterday afternoon, preceded by a 20-minute batting practice and followed by 15 minutes of snappy fielding. In conjunction with the fielders' workout the catchers were drilled in whipping the ball down to second base and in the usual double-play formations. In the pitchers' corner Coach Duffy allowed the men to start curving the ball as their arms are in good condition now. As for the game itself, Team A again came out a winner by trimming Team B by the score...
Captain Driggs is expected to do the greater part of the work behind the bat this season. Although Driggs played at shortstop last spring, his natural position is catcher and judging from the past his performances this season should be of high order. Other men who have so far shown themselves to be of university calibre are: Scully at first base Madden and Weigand at second, Bauhaun at short, Howett and Bade at third, and Lee, Rankin, Hammond, Cory, Grey and Sidler for the outfield positions...
...Paulding describes an affair of the heart in very different vein. He, too, is subtle and sensitive, bat not a bit serious, and he makes us feel that his irresponsible hero is an actual human, attractive, normal Harvard undergraduate, a trivial person, no doubt, but far more appealing than the disembodied soul who suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate...
...Everett, right fielder; N. H. Kerr '19, of Exeter, shortstop, and R. E. Gross '19, of St. George's left fielder, were the best batters on the team, Bond leading Casey by a narrow margin. Although a bit slow in his fielding, Bond redeemed himself at the bat. He connected for a two-base and a three-base hit in the Morris Heights game. Captain Casey covers a wide territory in the centre garden, is a dependable fielder, and a consistent hitter. He will make a valuable recruit for the 1917 University team...