Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first R. O. T. C. intercompany baseball game of the season, Company I defeated Company K on Soldiers Field last Saturday afternoon by a score of 5 to 4. The Company I nine took the lead in the first inning, and, playing errorless ball, maintained it throughout, although at times they were hard pressed to hold their advantage. Twice, with men on bases, K Company was prevented from scoring by the steady pitching of W. G. Cummings '17, who had a total of 13 strike-outs to his credit. In the last inning with one out, two hits in succession...
There will be an intercompany baseball game this afternoon on Soldiers Field between Companies I and K of the Third Battalion...
...advise anyone to enlist before he is actually needed, for we must not use up all of our strength at once--if this is exhausted we should have little to fall back upon. You are like substitute football players, who are of great service although not actually in the game...
...when we know that men in this simple way are learning to save themselves, in so far as they may, from terrible slaughter in battles, and learning that they may teach others to be saved, the game takes on a new meaning. It is not a boys' game played by boys with wooden rifles and paper hats who simulate the excitement of war. It is a man's game, and learning to play it may be worth in time our own poor lives, and the greater success of our cause...
...Play up, and play the game." That is the slogan of sportsmen...