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HARVARD Hoye singled sharply to right and took second when Holt fumbled the ball. Tully scratched a single over second and advanced Hoye to third. After Tully stole second, Fulton bit a grounder over second which scored Hoye and sent Tully to third. Then Tully was trapped between third and home trying to score on a delayed steal. Fulton took second on the rundown. Keyes walked and Healey singled, scoring Fulton and sending Keyes to third. Jones scratched a single to center to score Keyes and advance Healey to second. Grondahl fanned for the third out. Five hits three runs...
HARVARD--Johns was called out on strikes. Gannett singled, stole second, and counted on Grondahl's ringing triple to deep right center. This drove Joe Wood out of the box and Dud Humphrey, his successor, walked Lupien, but forced Hoye to pop out and got Tully on a grounder, first-baseman unassisted. Two hits...
Lupe Lupien provided the winning margin in Harvard's half of the frame with a two-run single to right. Healey led off with the second of his three singles of the day. Maxson, Green burler, threw wild to second on Johns' grounder, and all hands were safe. Hoye's sacrifice bunt advanced the two runners...
...does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball as "the set of dishes." A pitcher easy for a particular batter to hit is that batter's "cousin." A hard hitter "lays the wood to it." Base runners are "ducks on the pond...
...spot. In the ninth, young Vander Meer walked three more Dodgers. A tense silence settled over the stands as Manager Bill McKechnie, a smart manager of pitchers, strode out to the box and whispered in Vander Meer's ear. Regaining control, Vander Meer made Ernie Koy hit a grounder for a putout...