Word: fielder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight of the Australians who played in Manhattan last week were on the team that won the "Ashes" - symbol of world's championship - from England in 1930. Captain was Victor Y. Richardson, a first-class bat and Australia's greatest fielder. The team had a fine wicket-keep in Harry Carter, 54, oldest man on the team. Bowler Fleetwood-Smith dismissed the South Africans twice this season in Australia and will be a valuable googlie* bowler for the test matches next year...
...before when the Red and Blue bowed before Dartmouth. For the time being he forced the Crimson hitters to pop up with ineffectual flies, but loosened up in the eighth stanza, walking Gleason. A heroic single from McCaffrey's bat, scored the Harvard center fielder, and McCaffrey followed home on his heels when Lupien connected for a sizzling double...
...Robins since 1927. Herman is celebrated for allowing fly-balls to drop on his head, for transforming a homerun into a triple play (by passing two other base-runners), for carrying a lighted cigar in his pocket. But, because he is a powerful batter and at times a competent fielder, he is by no means a liability to his team. Last week Babe Herman was the central figure in the most important baseball deal of the training season. Brooklyn's new manager, Max Carey, who is trying to turn a clownish collection of eccentrics into an orderly big-league...
...trading Fielder Hack Wilson and a young pitcher named Bud Teachout to the Cardinals, the Cubs last winter got Burleigh Grimes, famed spitball pitcher who pitched a two-hit game in last year's World Series. The success of the Giants, according to Manager McGraw, depended largely on the performance of Second Baseman Hughie Critz who hurt his throwing arm early last season and may not yet be fully recovered. The Giants new left fielder, Len Koenecke, bought for $75,000 from Indianapolis, last week made two two-base hits in a game against the Cubs...
...Poor '34, J. E. Sheldon '32, E. D. W. Sprague '32, J. Van R. Strong '34, Since Devens is to play ball this season, he will be unable to enter football. Fremd was a member of the 1934 team. Gorman is from the Jayvee squad last year. Lockwood was fielder on the Freshman team last year with Strong, John Ware, Jr., Captain of the 1934 team, is expected to come out soon with his teammates P. DeB. deGive, F. H. Gleason, Nathaniel Ware, Benjamin Beale, T. A. Lupien, W. R. Sutcliffe...