Word: clout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...frame, however, Coach Mitchell's forces increased their margin by two more scores, when Ticknor acted as an unsteady influence on Sondheim by starting off the stanza with a long triple to left field. The frame was but a few minutes older when Wood duplicated Ticknor's three-base clout, and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Lupien. In the following inning Ticknor again connected with Sonheim's delivery for three bases, sending two men across the slab with scores, and later crossed the plate himself for Harvard's sixth...
Treating the weekend crowd to an exhibition of air-tight baseball, the Crimson nine made it two in a row this year over a powerful Pennsylvania aggregation when it duplicated its 3-1 victory of last month. Captain McGrath's triple and Wood's circuit clout provided the necessary punch to edge the solitary tally that the Quakers were able to eke out against the crafty delivery of the red-haired Harvard moundsman, MacHale...
Harvard started the scoring in the first inning, McCaffrey counting for the first score on DesRoches's long three-base clout to right field, being soon followed by DesRoches himself, who scored on a wild pitch. The veteran guardian of the hot corner found himself a bit yesterday afternoon, poling out three hits out of five times up. McCaffrey also showed up much better at the bat than he has previously, collecting three safe hits out of three chances...
...earned money as a flower girl and match-seller. She would clout fighting drunkards apart, would take stray babies...
After the hectic fifth Harvard scored twice in the seventh when Wood collected his second homer on a hit to right-center and Des Roches immediately sent the center fielder running in the other direction for his clout to left-center that was also good for four bases...