Word: buntings
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...neat drag bunt laid down the first-base line in the sixth inning was all that kept Captain Warren "Moe" Berg from an absolutely perfect performance Saturday afternoon, as the Crimson nine notched a 3 to 0 triumph over Northeastern...
Harvard, however, bounded back in the stretch half of the seventh, manufacturing two runs out of two singles, a bunt, and an error. Heath started things off with his final safety of the day, a line drive to left field. Gallagher reached on a perfect bunt down the first base path. After Heath was forced at third by Fitzgibons' attempted sacrifice Flynn came through with a sharp single to center field, scoring Gallagher. Flynn moved to second and Fitzgibbons to third on the throw-in. After fanning Slattery, Judge of BU let loose with a prodigious heave to the fence...
Died. James J. ("Jimmy") Collins, 73, baseball's onetime and perhaps alltime greatest third baseman; of pneumonia; in Buffalo. Famed for his fast defense against bunts, he once had the pleasure of tossing out Bunt-Attempters Wee Willie Keeler, John McGraw and Hughie Jennings in succession. He managed the Boston Red Sox to victory in 1903-8 first World Series, quit professional baseball in 1911, invested in real estate, went broke in the depression, managed the Buffalo Parks Department teams...
...Louis Cardinals of 1942. In their book, nothing is too difficult. Their outfielders make octopus catches, pick off base runners with the cool precision of anti-aircraft guns. Their runners can beat out any bunt, are shamefaced if they can't make third from first on an outfield single. Last week these scooping, swooping musketmen upset Yankee morale. In the first game of the Series, with Old Reliable Red Ruffing only four putouts away from a no-hitter, they staged a rally that scored four runs, sent Ruff to the showers and nearly stole the ball game...
Coach Stahl substituted Sophomore Irv Rudman in the Soldiers' big seventh, but the loss was charged to Stanton, who had put the winning runs on the bases, one through a walk, the other through his own error on a bunt...