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Sweeney, on the mound for the Providence team, seemed to have little trouble in subduing the Harvard efforts at batting, allowing six scattered hits which failed to bring the Crimson forces into a scoring position. The Brown team netted only six hits off Boyer, the Harvard hurler, but sloppy fielding and wild throws on the part of the Freshmen allowed the visitors to pile up their nine runs...
Coach Mitchell selected Devens to pitch and the Sophomore hurler had the Maine aggregation eating out of his hand. He allowed but four hits, fanned eleven, and issued five bases on balls. Devens now has 37 strikeouts to his credit for the season. Souther, on the other hand, although not hard hit, was nicked for nine hits, seven of which figured in the scoring. Seven walks also aided the Harvard cause...
...league victors have just been determined. In the Alpha group there was a double tie for the top position, while in the Beta league three teams claimed the championship: the Kappa Sigmas won the play-off on the pitching of J. D. Vail Jr. '32, their star hurler, who is expected to be on the mound tonight if he recovers from a slight illness...
...scrub team, which has been drilled in the Harvard formations during the last two weeks by Coach Bill Webster, imitated the Crimson offense, emphasizing especially the aerial attack. Barry Wood, expert hurler, is expected to be the center of the Harvard attack against Yale, and Head Coach Mal Stevens has decided to continue to drill his charges in presenting a strong defense to a forward passing attack, as he did all last week preceding the Princeton encounter. The scrubs used a variety of formations which Harvard has used this season, in order to familiarize the Elis with the type...
...then the battle was disconcerted again. An observer (the Hearst press) noticed what looked like a spy within the Republican lines. The observer told Chief of Staff Harrison, chief hurler of Democratic sarcasm grenades. To the breast-works leapt Harrison and shouted that Brigadier Bingham, the Republican's most air-conscious hero and a superb college professor, had harbored in his tent one Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the chieftain of the Manufacturers' Association in Brigadier Bingham's home domain of Connecticut; that this Eyanson had received federal pay as Bingham's assistant, what time...