Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of at bad fifth inning in which Charles Devens '32, the Freshman pitcher, allowed four runs, the 1932 baseball team lost its second successive game when it was defeated by the Worcester Academy team by a 5 to 1 score at the Soldiers Field diamond Saturday afternoon...
Aside from his one fatal inning, Devens pitched excellent baseball striking out 14 men, and allowing two bases on balls. The bame was plainly a pitchers' battle with Robinson, the Worcester twirler, allowing only four hits and striking out nine batters. Of Harvard's four hits, W. B. Wood '32 accounted for two with a couple of three baggers. After his second long hit, he was brought in from third to score the Crimson's only tally...
...home team scored two more in the second on a single by T. W. Gilligan '31, a wild pitch, and two infield errors, Harvard clinched the game in the fourth when they scored three runs on four hits, one a triple by G. E. Donaghy '29. Gilligan's double in the next frame scored Ticknor, who had walked...
Before the colleges call go much farther, however, they must have more satisfactory material sent up to them from secondary schools. It is during the four or five pre-college year that one's habits of study and interest in learning are most easily formed. Theoretically it should be the time for "quickening the appetite for intellectual things, making men realize that working hard is worth while." But owing to the many complications arising in our present system, it is not until a man gets to college that anything like this happens, and how often it is then too late...
...mile relay, V. L. Hennessy '30, leadoff man fell in the scramble at the start cutting off all Crimson chances in that event at the outset. The race was won by the Dartmouth quartet which the University runners defeated last winter. The Crimson four mile relay team was outclassed placing sixth in its event...