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...team batting average of the University baseball squad jumped 17 points in the defeat at the hands of Holy Cross in Worcester, and the one sided win over Princeton in the deciding game of the series last Wednesday. The 254 total is only four points lower than the average of two weeks ago. Following the win over Princeton in the second game and the victory over Brown at Providence, the Crimson batters slipped to a collective average of :237. The fielding mark slipped a point below the high mark of last week...
Members of the farm bloc, incensed by the defeat of the Haugen farm relief bill last week, blocked the effective working of the House, and action on a rivers and harbors bill and on a bill to raise the salaries of Federal judges was delayed...
Unquestionably the prestige gained by the Cabinet from Abd-El-Krim's defeat (see p. 12) as well as the Right's desire to save the franc aided Premier Briand in securing his vote of confidence 320 to 209. All fiscal debate was thereby postponed for another week and the Cabinet's overthrow again avoided by a hair...
Holy Cross will be favored to defeat the University baseball tean at Fitton Field in Worcester when the Crimson and Purple clash in the second and final game of the series today. Any college team playing the Crusaders is the underdog these days, and with one victory over Harvard already to its score the Worcester nine will be doubly favored in the game that is scheduled to get under way at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
Sturtevant succeeds Dudley Merrill '26, who has stroked the crew for three years. Last year, when Merrill was captain, the crew won the Big Three Championship; this season, his eight was unsuccessful, although it did defeat Yale in the triangular race last month...