Word: batting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University second team gained its first victory of the season yesterday at Soldiers Field when it easily defeated Huntington School by the score of 8 to 3 in a game that was marked by errors on both sides. Lucas, playing at right field for the Seconds, batted a thousand, registering three of the seven hits made by his team, and crossing the plate for one of the runs. Lane also did well at the bat for the visitors, knocking out a triple in the first of the third, and scoring a minute later on an error by the catcher...
Picture the consternation of the fans if Tyrus Cobb should try to beat himself to death with his bat after striking out with the bases full...
...slugging streak, and returned the compliment by making nine runs and tying the score. One in the fourth, four in the fifth, and one in the eighth completed Princeton's total. Caldwell and Carney each made a home run, and Smith registered four hits out of five times at bat...
...Fitton, whose face was cut in the Dean Academy game. His place will be filled by Gardner, who has done some creditable work at third this year. Hoffman, who was also injured in the contest with Dean, dressed for practice yesterday, and may return to his position behind the bat some time during the afternoon...
Today the undergraduate of the University has forgotten McKean, "Bloody Monday", and Reinhardt. He does not even know "Schneider's Band", a song endeared to the graduates. Even the battered bat is passing, though no one has yet thought to shed a tear over it. These superficials of college life are mere signs of the times, out-grown like other fashions. But the memory of the University's past creates a common background for the changing generations. Efforts like those of the Father and Son Societies, recently made effective by the "Sons of 1901", serve to bind the past more...