Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Box Assignment...
...visitors had a very strong team last year and put the University down to defeat by a 2-1 score. Newton, who will probably start in the box, is one of a powerful pitching staff that has given the best Eastern college teams difficulty this spring. Duba, used sometimes at shortstop, is also reliable as a mounds man, and Kerwan is a third pitcher who may be called on. The last named played a clever all around game at second base for the visitors last year. Captain Spillane, behind the bat, is considered one of the best of the season...
...played this season, the yearlings were forced to accept a 9-8 defeat from the Princeton Freshmen at the latter's home ground on May 28. The contest was peculiar in that the pitchers of both teams, formerly clever at allowing a few hits, were knocked out of the box in the sixth session. It was in this inning that the Tigers gained four runs and a lead that the Crimson was unable to overcome throughout the remainder of the contest...
Larson seems to be Penn's best bot in the box as he has pitched his team to five victories. Against Princeton, in the first game, Harvey, playing leftfield for Penn succeeded in getting 3 hits out of five times at bat, one of them going for two bases; Myers also got a two bagger. In the second game, Mouradian and Myers each smashed out a triple, the former getting two hits out of three times...
Although it has not yet been decided whether Goode or Russell will be in the box, the remainder of the University nine will line up exactly as it played in the Williams game. Thayer, who showed up well on Wednesday, will continue in right field, as Crocker and Buell, who have alternated this position so far this season, have both been kept out of practice lately by slight illness