Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Costly errors at critical times were chiefly responsible for the second baseball team's 9 to 7 defeat at the hands of the Tufts Freshman nine in the opening game of the second team season on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The Harvard team did not hit its stride until after the sixth inning, but its seven run rally at this time was not sufficient to overcome the commanding lead held by the visitors. Save for a disastrous fifth inning, the Tufts hits were kept well scattered throughout the game...
...University nine hammered out five runs in the first three innings of yesterday's game to gain an easy 5 to 1 verdict over Bates College. Howard Whitmore '29 pitched no-hit ball for eight innings, only to weaken with one out in the ninth when three of the visiting batters found him for hits, one a triple, netting a lone tally...
...high wind which seemed to trouble the visiting gardeners in judging files. B. H. Bassett '31, diminutive lead-off man, started the first inning with a Texas leaguer to short center. He stole second, was advanced to third by Donaghy's single, both scoring on J. A. Prior's hit to short left...
Three base hits--McGrath, Luce, Home run--Donaghy, Sacrifice hit--Turner. Stolen bases--Bassett, Donaghy, Gilligan. Struck out--by Whitmore 5, by Marston 3. Bases on balls--off Whitmore 3, off Marston 2. Umpires--Stafford and Halloran. Time of game--1 hour, 40 minutes...
...Even when we have got near to them, our difficulties have only begun, for an elephant is not a pleasant beast. Once when I was walking through a bank of bushes my outstretched hand hit something that didn't feel like wood. It wasn't; it was the side of an elephant! I couldn't get out of that place fast enough...