Word: hurlers
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Probably the world's most famed statue of an athlete is of a discobolus (discus-thrower), by Myron, ancient Greek, restored by Professor Furtwangler. His restoration places the missile-hurler* in exceedingly poor "form," according to modern proceedings...
...team from Williamstown comes with a strange record. They held Princeton to four runs while they nicked. Fowler, the Tiger hurler, for a single tally. A week later B. U., conquerors of Harvard, suffered a shutout at their hands, while the Williams sluggers drove in six runs. These victories are balanced by a defeat from the invading Bruins when the Providence team staged a laterally. Columbia took their measure in 11 innings and Wesleyan swamped them by a score of 16 to 1, amassing a total of 18 hits before the curtain was rung down...
...paths when Burns rolled out, second to first. Fons showed his first sings of weakening in this frame and it appeared as if the Crimson hitters had him on the down path. Barbee retired the Crusaders in their half of the fifth with three straight strikeouts. The University hurler set the two leaders of the Holy Cross batting order down with eightpitched balls. In their half of the same inning, the Crimson attack chased one more run across the plate to lead the visitors for the first time. Jones led off with a single, was advanced to second on Zarakov...
...balls for a circuit blow scoring a man before him. The losers scored their lone run in the eighth on Cuzzen's triple followed by Donaldson's single. Nash gave the defenders seven hits while the Crimson nine was collected five blows from the offerings of Arnold, the Brown hurler. Following the contest John Bertram Dacey '26, of Dorchester was elected leader of the Second team...
After counting once in the initial frame, the 1929 squad bombarded Cole, the Deer-field hurler with four hits in the third, and chased five runs across the plate. In the following session the Freshmen continued their scoring when Durkee was hit by a pitched ball, Prior and McGehee walked, and Elkins and Dewing connected safely. The visitors came back in the first of the sixth with four runs. Cole was hit by Malloy at the plate, and Wilson, Black, and Ensign, the next three men to face the Freshman twirler planted safe blows the last man to hit scoring...