Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pinch-hitter Paul Counihan's single in the last of the eighth and a double steal set the stage for Dick Grondahl's perfect double squeeze play which scored two runs and gave the Freshman baseball team a 6-5 win over Lawrence Academy yesterday on Soldiers Field...
From this point the home team was never headed and even allowed itself to make seven errors. In the fourth Princeton picked up two runs on Johnston's homer after a base on balls, and in the ninth put on a four run splurge culminated by pinch hitter Masset's drive. Like Johnston's smash, it went for a round trip by bouncing erratically past Gibbs' head...
...prepared at Exeter where he played second base on last year's team and this year he holds down the same position on the '39 nine. He has in all the games this year played fine ball at his position and has been a constantly dangerous hitter at the plate...
...first, captained, caught, and helped slug his 1938 Freshman team to 13 victories; with Maguire behind the plate he shifted to first where he has made rapid progress. After this big four Coach Mitchell has little proved infield material to look at. Carr, a classy fielder but weak hitter, who was with the Jayvees last year, Shean, a Sophomore, making the Princeton trip, John Sullivan, another second year man, steady but slow, and Mike Hovenanian, in and outer; these complete the roster of inner circle...
Braman Gibbs is a veteran centerfielder and .300 hitter. Flanking him in left stands Ben Prouty, a left handed swinger who hits through third base, a natural second man in any batting order. But in right field there is a void. Jim Sullivan can field the position but can't hit. George Tittmann is erratic and further than that his services are needed with the pitching corps. At present that corps consists mainly of Ingalls; for Southpaw Dick Walsh has failed to live up to expectations, Tittmann is wild, Bilodeau is sequestered at short, and the hard working John Campana...