Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gymnasts moved out of reach after the third, scoring twice in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings. Meanwhile, pitcher Bill Sullivan's fast balls were keeping the Crimson bats fairly quiet. Captain John Davis beat out an infield hit in the third and scored on Chet Boulris' lost-in-the-sun fly to right that fell for a triple...
...This hit should have been no more than a double, but Boulris got the extra base by barreling into third baseman Tom Johnson, dislodging the ball from his glove and Johnson from the ball game, badly bruised. Boulris added the other run on a long homer through the right-centerfield gap in the eighth...
...Americans (there is no reason to suppose that Bostonians are unique) do not want good theatre, and will not take it when it is offered. It will be hard now to read the success of a good play as indicating anything except that an audience has been stampeded by hit psychology, coaxed by affection for a favorite star, dragged by dumb loyalty to a particular critic, or tempted by the possibility of sexual excitement...
...apart in the center of the playing area. The wickets consist of three "stumps" stuck into the ground with two "bails," small wooden pieces, resting over the tops of the stumps. A wicket is "lost" when a batsman lets a ball thrown by the "bowler," go by him and hit one of the stumps, thus knocking off one or both bails...
...Huskies collected three more hits in the eighth on two hits, a walk and two hit batsmen--both glancing blows off the buttons. After Johnson forced the second and third runs across the plate, Wally Cook was called in to prevent further damage, which he did neatly by striking out catcher Tom Cangiano on a fast ball and two curves. The loss, the varsity's second against two victories was the first for Johnson...