Word: batting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five-inning contest of old-timers begins this afternoon at Braves Field at 1.15 o'clock, the University Second baseball team will be represented by a former and a present coach. Fred Lake, who tutored the Crimson scrubs to last year's win over Yale, will be behind the bat, stopping the curves of "Iron-man" Joe McGinnity and Mike Lynch, while Fred Parent, the present mentor of the Seconds, will be cavorting among the daisies in the shortstop position...
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...BAT - A Novel from the Play by Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood - Doran ($2). Now there is a chance for all who were too young, busy, distant or improvident to see one of this era's most satisfactory spine-chillers on the stage, to read it in a book. One suspects that one of Mrs. Rinehart's literarily inclined sons -Alan, the publicity man, or Stanley, a still-higher-up of their mother's publisher - is the unnamed "third person" who alleges he was a nervous derelict after transcribing from scenes to chapters the ghoulish excitement that...
Although the University baseball team engaged in two 2 to 1 games during the past week, the batting average for the team as a whole shows an increase over the previous weeks. This fact can be explained only by the low number of times at bat registered against Pennsylvania and Bates, so that though the team did not hit often, neither did it officially go to bat as often as is the case in loosely played games. The large number of free passes issued by Stanford and Small also reduces the number of times at bat credited to each player...
...veteran Ellison in the outfield. Burns has not shown much punch with the stick, but his speed, both on the paths and in pursuing flies have given him an edge on the slower, though reliable, veteran, Ellison has not been able to hit this year, until he regains his batting eye, he will scarcely be able to regain his lost position. In the infield, no changes seem likely for the potent Chauneey has been doing adequate work behind the plate, and though his foul catching is notably weak, he has been throwing well, and his prowess at bat gives...