Word: centerfielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scored Jones. Thereafter Harvard added other tallies in the odd innings until the fifth when Coach Mitchell's sluggers went on a rampage. Chase, Lord, and Chauncey, of the first four men to come to the plate in that canto, hit Thomas for clean singles. An error in centerfield on Ullman's hit brought in several runs and placed Ullman on second. Donaghy followed with a smashing single. The Wesleyan infielders tossed the ball around a while and when they were through Ullman had scored and Donaghy was sitting on third, Ketchum did not let Donaghy remain long...
Harvard's other two runs came in the fourth and seventh innings. Burns opened the fourth with a long triple to right field, and scored standing up when Zarakov plunked a single over the third baseman's head. In the seventh MacDonald dropped Tobin's easy fly to centerfield. DeRham walked, and Ullman hunted safely. Tobin scored on Booth's long sacrifice fly after Sullivan had been retired on a fly that gave Tobin no chance from third...
...Series" (Baltimore versus Louisville), Joseph Deberry, Louisville pitching star, smiled confidently at the first Oriole batter who faced him in the fourth inning of the eighth game for the minor league championship. In that inning two sturdy Baltimorons, Batters Porter and Brainard, smashed home runs over the centerfield fence, brought in three runs with the result that Deberry, no longer smiling, was removed from the box and Baltimore gained a lead which gave them the game, 5 runs to 2, the series 5 games...
...games. Rogers has been hitting consistently, and Todd in left field has earned a reputation as one of the most consistent players on this year's team. Burgess has shown up as a more dependable outfielder and as good a hitter as Gehrke and seems to have cinched the centerfield berth...
...feature of yesterday's play occurred when Captain Greenough's eleven rushed the ball from centerfield for a touchdown scored by Miller on a line plunge. Several substitutions were made; Taylor for Greenough, Stafford for Spalding, and Maher for Hammond. Maher made the most brilliant run of the afternoon when he gained 15 yards off tackle...