Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...batting averages of the Crimson nine climbed six points as a result of the last four contests, despite the fact that three of the games were among the hardest on the schedule. Before last Saturday's game, in which the University sluggers found the Red and Blue pitcher for but four scattered hits, the team bade fair to reach the .300 mark...
When the Crimson key wearers sally out from Widener to defend the honour of the University and the Alpha of Massachusetts, a once annual custom, severed five years ago over some meet point, will be revived. In 1924 tradition has it, the game was played in the Esculapian Room of the Harvard Club of Boston, where it was called on account of darkness after nine scoreless innings. With the development of inside baseball among the Harvard erudites during the past five years, it is thought that the Crimson standard-bearers can fashion out a run before the regulation time...
...local key-wearers are contemplating an innovation this year, according to an unofficial announcement. Instead of holding the annual dinner just before the game, as formerly, this year, for obvious reasons, the hour has been changed. The final selection of speakers, who will be versed equally in the classics and the natural sciences has not yet been made, but it is hoped to secure several men of prominence to address the assembled societies. Whether or not the rival teams will engage in the customary formalities of fraternization, as has hitherto been the case, or whether the victory will be celebrated...
...kept at a minimum by the meagre time allotted to them. Those in charge of this phase of the situation estimate that many men who began the season with enthusiasm soon withdrew when they found how little opportunity was allowed them for keeping in condition, let alone improving their game...
Poor stickwork, which has been the nemesis of the Crimson team in its previous games, seemed to have been tremendously improved by the past week's practice. Although the Williams outfit was not up to the calibre of some of the teams Harvard has met in the past few weeks, the game was hotly contested enough to be interesting...