Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the narrowing down of the baseball schedule and the improved pitching met with in games with more powerful teams, the batting average of the University nine has taken a decided drop. Investigation of the batting and fielding figures, exclusive of yesterday's tilt with Georgetown discloses that while the defense has tightened enough to raise its fielding record seven points, the hitting, despite the outburst against the University of Maine, has fallen ten notches. From a 304 mark the figure of the Crimson hitsmiths has shrunk to 294, the lowest since the southern trip, and the first average below...
Holy Cross Downs Georgetown...
Since that engagement down in the nation's capital, Georgetown has cut a wide swath in collegiate baseball ranks, until its nine ran afoul of Holy Cross at Worcester last Saturday. There Burch was chased from the mound by a salvo of hits that produced eight runs in the fifth, while Davidson of Holy Cross pitched shutout ball throughout the contest, holding his opponents to two hits. The two Georgetown counters that made the final score 9 to 2 came in on errors...
Victory today will go a long way toward determining Harvard's right to the mythical baseball championship crown of the eastern colleges. Through its defeat by Holy Cross, Georgetown's claim to the laurels will be no stronger than the University's, and if Barbee and his mates succeed in topping the visitors this afternoon, Harvard will unquestionably rank above the Blue and Gray, always a powerful contender for Eastern honors...
...Crimson baseball team is pointing for the strenuous final games, including contests with Holy Cross. Brown, Penn, Dartmouth and the annual series with Yale. In an early season diamond meeting with Yale Georgetown went to 11 innings to take an 8 to 7 struggle from the Elis...