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Then in the seventh Bobby St. George doubled and Fred Karp singled him home. Drummey attempted a squeeze bunt but got to first when Varnum died around with his bunt down the third base line. Bartoiet singled to score Karp, and Huskle coach Tinker Connelly released Mullin from further mound duties...
Cannon to First. Both are uncommonly nimble and uncommonly sturdy-equally adept at knocking down vicious line drives with their chests, or charging home plate to scoop up a dying bunt. And both have the kind of 90-mm. arm to make the long throw to first. But the talents do not stop there...
Harvard scored in the top of the first as the Drummey-Bartolet-Morse trio nicely engineered a run. Drummey led off with a walk, and Bartolet's sacrifice bunt sent him to second. The third baseman crossed the plate on Morse's double to left...
Curious Crouch. Hunched into his curious, knock-kneed crouch, holding his thick-handled bat like a broomstick (with his hands six inches apart), Cobb was a remarkably versatile hitter. He could bunt, hit line drives or ground balls, place his hits almost at will. Never noted as a longball hitter, he nevertheless led the American League in home runs in 1909 (with nine), once hit five in two consecutive games-a mark Babe Ruth never matched. Asked to compare Cobb and Ruth, Cleveland Outfielder Tris Speaker once said: "Babe was a great ballplayer, but Cobb was even greater. Ruth could...
...Crimson's Dave Morse drew a walk to open the inning, stole second, and went to third when captain Al Martin flied out to left. For an as yet unexplained reason, coach Norm Shepard ordered Charlie Ravenel to pull a squeeze bunt. He did, and Morse was called out at the plate in a cloud of dust...