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...showed Saturday that it is still one of the best teams of the summer circuit by beating the Crimson 8 to 3. The Crusaders hit the ball solidly to collect 14 hits. Jack Tivnan, who would be considered a Class A pitcher in any league, was again the opposing hurler and pitched brilliantly, striking out eight batters while only issuing two free trips to first base...
Harvard beat Yale and Brown on Soldiers Field Saturday, according to the if-men, when Coach Floyd. Stale's boys yielded only five runs to a strong Holy Cross nine and scored one themselves. Tivnan, hurler for the Crusaders, showed plenty of stuff, allowing only three scratch in field hits and whiffing four on strikes. The Holy Cross picket line had to make only three put-outs, testifying to Tivana's superior talent, and the infield handled the other outs...
...first scoring jamboree was accomplished without the benefit of much lusty slugging. A walk and two successive errors by the Bruin hurler had the third well started before Art Conlon's single to right, followed by a double steal, did the bulk of the scoring...
Coach Stahl commented yesterday as his squad loafed through a light batting drill that steadier defense play and an edge in the pitching department turned the trick against Melville. Wallace, who was pitted against a former Chicago White Sox hurler, notched ten strikeouts...
After 49 innings of pitching, Wallace finally gave way in the eighth and last inning to Lefty Knowles, regular B team hurler. With Harvard in the lead and the game almost over, Coach Stahl yanked both his pitcher and first baseman, Jim Fava, to give Knowles and Ken Crumrine Varsity experience. Wallace, in the seven innings that he pitched, was in form comparable to his 14-inning whitewashing of the Boston Coast Guard. Throttling the visitors with only four hits, he struck out eight, two with runners on first and third in the sixth. Knowles, pitching his first Varsity game...