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...career as major-league pitcher accounts for one of baseball's oldest and least wanted records-most runs given up in nine innings; of a kidney ailment; in Philadelphia. On May 18, 1912, when the Detroit Tigers angrily refused to play a game with the Athletics (after Ty Cobb was suspended for hitting a fan three days before), Travers, then a student at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, was one of a group of sandlotters recruited to face the A's. The fans were mightily amused, but the pros showed no mercy, bombing Travers...
...Crimson attack could muster only eight hits, three from the bat of third baseman Bill Cobb. Harvard's three leading sluggers, Jeff Grate, John Ignacio and captain Carter Lord, accounted for only two hits among them...
Jack Turco lined a shot to shortstop; and on the double play attempt Lord was cut off at second, Ignacio moved to third, and Cobb scored...
...early as the second inning, however, Brandeis was hopelessly behind. Jeff Grate got the carnival rolling in the first with a walk and a steal to second. Bill Cobb doubled, moving Grate to third, and with a walk to John Ignacio the bases were loaded...
Brandeis' first pitcher, Rick Horowitz, had trouble keeping the ball under control in all of the six innings he played. On a wild pitch to Harvard's cleanup man, Carter Lord, Grate scored as Cobb and Ignacio moved into scoring position...