Word: batting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very successful season this year and comparative scores would indicate a Crimson victory. Rhode Island has at times, however, given evidence of a powerful attack and has in its line-up several hard-hitters, notably Labree, center fielder, who secured three hits in four times at bat against Brown. The Rhode Islanders lost this game 8-4, but if they can display another flash of the power that they showed in certain innings of this contest, it will take the Crimson's full strength to gain another victory...
...visitors' fielding, too, is erratic and has frequently been the cause of defeat, but here again, the Purple nine has had periods of almost perfect work in the infield. O'Brien at shortstop is the best player both in the field and at bat. In the Wesleyan game he played errorless ball and was responsible for three of the five runs scored...
...fact, we have not the slightest qualm in anticipating that the score published tomorrow morning will be 23-2: It has been that for the last fifteen years. The lbis and his inky companion are certain to disagree between themselves over the contents of the latest invention the hollow bat (The lampoon has offered a prize of one dollar and a free copy of one of the issues destroyed in the Fire to the undergraduate guessing the wherefore of its hollowness...
...next inning was featured by a remarkable volley in which the Crimson batters made nine hits out of ten times at bat, scoring seven runs before the Colby fielders could stop the rally. In the sixth the University nine added three more counts to its score when Jenkins got a neat single followed by two doubles by Hallock and Russell...
Coach Raymond graduated from Brown in 1909. There he had a remarkable baseball career, catching for four years on the Brown team, and leading it for two successive seasons. His work at the plate was as noticeable as his playing behind the bat, for he showed a consistently high batting and fielding average through all his years on the diamond...