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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the highest average recorded by a Crimson team at this stage of the season in a number of years. Last spring the Harvard hitsmiths had compiled a .309 average after the southern trip, while two years ago a paltry 250 told the tale of the early effectiveness of the University batters...
...Howard Whitmore '29 was charged with the loss of the game to the Marines. Whitmore hurled the tenth and eleventh frames after Cutts had held the service team to two safe blows in nine innings. The winning run was scored without a hit being made. LEADING THE VAN HIGHEST AVERAGE Prior .470 MOST RUNS Donaghy 7 MOST HITS Prior 8 MOST DOUBLES Donaghy 2 Chase 2 MOST TRIPLES Hardie 3 MOST HOME RUNS Burns 1 MOST STOLEN BASES Burns...
Having measured the height of the "crime wave," and collected figures on the business of murder for 1927, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, consulting statistician for the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, last fortnight indicted many a middle-sized U. S. city. The highest homicide rates (per 100,000 inhabitants) were found...
...they were fast and clever, because their centre, Frank Boucher, is the smartest poke-checker in the game, because their two bald defense men, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson and Clarence ("Taffy") Abel, are heavy and efficient, because Bill Cook, who skates with the rhythm of a moose running, is the highest-paid team captain in the National Hockey League, because Bun Cook, his brother who looks like Lindbergh and is engaged to be married, is surpassed as a skater only by the famed Howie Morenz of the Montreal Canadiens. All season big crowds (from six to fifteen thousand) have cheered...
...Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, who bought the manuscript, is probably the most energetic bibliophile now at large. In addition to paying as he did for the manuscript of Alice one of the highest prices that has ever been given for an author's manuscript, he distinguished himself two years ago by setting the price-record for all book-auctions of any kind: $106,000 for a Gutenberg Bible (TIME, March 1, 1926). Other collectors are afraid of him; they know that he and his brother A. Rosenbach, who together make up the Rosenbach Co., have unlimited resources as well...