Word: hitters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course take back his regular position at shortstop. Kinney played a fairly good game last year and won his position at third base after a keen competition, but he cannot play the finished game that either of his rivals for the position can produce and he is a weak hitter. Johnson hits fairly well and is an excellent fielder. It is expected that he will be better this year than last. First base will be wisely entrusted to Bush, who is sure to pleace Coach Lauder if he can regain his batting eye. He batted well two years...
...narrow margin. Although a bit slow in his fielding, Bond redeemed himself at the bat. He connected for a two-base and a three-base hit in the Morris Heights game. Captain Casey covers a wide territory in the centre garden, is a dependable fielder, and a consistent hitter. He will make a valuable recruit for the 1917 University team...
Prospects for continued success were given a severe jolt last week when it was found that Captain Stafford had developed water on the knee after his collision with first baseman Palmer of the M. A. C. team in Tuesday's contest, and that outfielder Leland, the heaviest hitter on the team, had torn some ligaments in his leg. But with a patched-up team, the Middlebury aggregation was defeated on Thursday, mainly through Krepps's fine performance...
...field and doing some very effective work with the bat. Two teams have been met since then, Amherst and Wesleyan, and both have been turned away with the short end of the score. Individually, the visitors possess a sensational out-fielder in Captain Seibert and a consistent hitter in Clark, the veteran shortstop...
...game, prove the team much better in both branches of baseball than it was at the same date last year. The team batting average, which in 1915 was .226, is now .239, and the fielding, formerly .944, is .956. Individual averages are proportionately higher. R. Harte '17, the heaviest hitter on the team, has 31 points more than last spring. Abbot, who batted only .140, has risen from ninth in the list to tie for fourth place among the regulars with Mahan, his present average being .277. C. L. Harrison '18, who heads the list, has played only one game...