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Hitless during the first three innings the Varsity trailed the Bruins by five runs. Art Johnson led off in the fourth with a grounder through shortstop, advancing to second when Lupien walked. Frankie Owen's bingle to left, followed with doubles by McTernen and Jim Sullivan, brought in four runs, bringing the score...
...journalism, the questioning innuendo and the sly hint which get the story across without laying it on the line, and they could handle this one in that familiar technique. . . . One can only decide that in the present case the press of England has lifted its cap to a fast grounder and let it roll to the outfield to cool...
Batter Gehrig takes boyish pride in banging a baseball as far, and running around the bases as quickly, as possible. Nothing so unsubtle would suit solemn Pitcher Hubbell. A baseball sadist, he prefers to let a batter tap out a grounder which is almost but not quite good enough to get him to first base if he runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees...
With the bases loaded John Adzigian took Collier's difficult grounder and tossed it in the direction of second base. Tom Bilodeau raced over fast, took the ball in his bare hand, sailed over the bag, and threw off balance to John Sullivan on first retiring the side...
Individually the best play was the base running of Tiger Captain Bob French in the seventh. He went to second when Owen erred on his grounder and the outfield was slow retrieving the ball, and scored by beating the play home on Sandbach's grounder to deep short. ab r h po a e Adizgian, 3b 4 2 2 1 1 1 Prouty, 1f 4 2 1 2 0 0 Bilodeau, ss 3 3 2 1 4 1 Owen, 2b 4 3 2 4 2 1 Gibbs, cf 5 1 2 4 0 1 Colwell...