Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carr, utility shortstop, broke his leg the other day, and Dave Shean, reserve second baseman, still lacks experience or power at the bat. There is little possibility of sparing Bilodeau, a proficient hurler, for duty on the hill, or Frank Owen, an outfielder last season, for work in the outer cordon...
With Lupe Lupien, the leading clouter, the Harvard Freshman nine won a slugfest from the Naval Training School 20-8 yesterday on Soldiers Field. Lupien hit to all the far corners of the ball park, collecting two tremendous home runs, a triple, and a single in four trips to bat, driving in ten runs in the process...
High spots for the Crimson were Campana's hurling, one legitimate hit and no passes in five innings of freezing weather, Herbert G. Regan's single and three doubles for a perfect day at bat, and Malcolm McTernen's pair of circus clutches in right field in the first frame...
...ready to function, Producer Korda installed a "Special Effects Department" under Ned Mann. More astounding than the gigantic outdoor sets constructed under Art Director Vincent Korda were Mr. Mann's miniatures: a space gun 20 feet high (see cut) with tiny puppets running around it on moving belts; bat-shaped airplanes apparently capable of carrying armies; a sky-darkening air-force swooping over the Dover Cliffs...
...combination. The best group so far, both offensively and defensively seems to be Ulysses Lupien or Bob Gannett at first, Art Johns, 2nd base, Dick Grondahl, shortstop, and Fred Heckel at the hot corner. This aggregation has plenty of talent and tosses the ball around like veterans, while at bat any one of this group is capable of giving the horsehide a real ride...