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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barclay came to Cambridge as a 30-year old head basketball coach in 1916 and enjoyed a fairly successful season in his first year here. Saul Mariaschin paced the Crimson to a 19-6 won-lost record that year, but in the next two seasons Barclay was unable to hit on a winning combination...
Last year, in 19 innings of Ivy League pitching, Godin gave up only two earned runs and ten hits while striking out 20 batter. He finished the season with a brilliant four-hit 2 to 0 shutout of of Yale, beating the Elis' outstanding pitcher, Frank Quinn. Godin will start the 1949 campaign at Virginia on Monday and will work the Crimson's first League game against Navy on Saturday. After that, he will get the call for most of the team's League contests...
Round Trip. At McPherson, Kans., R. G. Hickman drove his new Oldsmobile across the railroad tracks and was hit by an eastbound train; an hour later, trying to get off the tracks, he was nicked by the westbound...
...Tigers shuffled him off to a higher farm at Buffalo, in the International League, where he played center eld as if he owned it, peppered the pitching for a .340 batting average, and hit 30 home runs. When the Tigers brought him into Briggs Stadium at the tag end of last season, Johnny drew a bead on the first big league ball ever pitched to him and sent it sailing 340 feet into the left-field stands...
...More." Red Rolfe does not expect Johnny to hit any .340 "right away in this league." There are still flaws in his batting; he swishes his bat back & forth nervously before each pitch, frequently wastes his power by swinging late. His fielding, too, still lacks polish. "All I hope is that they won't expect miracles this first year," warns a Tiger coach. "I'll bet you right now he'll make half a dozen throws to the wrong base early in the season...