Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receipt of your telegram stop Please be advised that I should like very much to go to bat with you in an ice-cream eating duel stop Where shall we eat stop If Princeton beats Harvard in Saturday's football game I am willing to eat at Princeton stop If Harvard wins are you willing to come to Cambridge stop If tie I suggest eating at New Haven stop Await reply...
...Club members with the aid of two or three unidentifled "ringers" quite surprised themselves and their opponents by doing so well at the English game. Captain L. John Profit Sp., was quite successful in exploding the wicket, as was also Roger Sheppard '40 of the home team. At the bat James D. Lightbody '40 starred...
...good with ball and bat...
...some 26,000 spectators it seemed .that Gomez was pitching like a rhythmic, flawless piece of machinery. In the last five and one-third innings he allowed only 18 Washington players to come to bat (minimum possible: 16). He also made two of the Yankees' nine hits. When the game was over (8-to-0) the Senators had made only three hits, scored no runs. This three-hit shutout was Pitcher Gomez' second best performance of the year...
Fortnight ago, Bob Wagner's veteran slum-clearing measure came to bat for the third time. Backed by such assorted powers as President Roosevelt, the conservative New York Times and the tory New York Herald Tribune, the bill looked like a sure thing. Sponsor Wagner crowed: "There is practical unanimity throughout the country in favor of the measure. . . . There was practically no opposition to the bill in the hearings before the committee...