Word: infielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exeter's ball team is scarcely up to standard this year, the weakness in the pitching staff having proved fatal in several games, although the infield, led by Captain Barry at first base is tight and hard hitting. They were defeated by Holy Cross 1923 8-7, and also dropped a close game to Worcester Academy, but defeated the Dartmouth Freshmen...
...clock on Soldiers Field. Fordyce and Thayer will officiate on the mound for Manager Kirk's slaves, while Higgins and Sessions, for the long-winded piaskin blowers, will keep the path to first from being worn. The agate polishers are worried at present over a bad gap in their infield. As their third baseman is scheduled to attend the Senior picnic it is feared that third baseman is scheduled to attend the Senior picnic it is feared that third base will not only be the dizzy corner but that there will be a dizzy player...
...Manager A. T. Hill '20's vicious willow-wielders slammed the untried Junior team into the proverbial cocked hat, tallying 15 runs to their lonely 1. Stan Johnson, the husky mounder for the Cap and Gown men, completely mystified the Junior batters. He was ably supported by an airtight infield composed of Falvey, Monroe and Dickson. Although the game dragged along for the first few sessions, the Seniors started things going in the seventh inning, when they knocked four pitchers completely...
Winton, the rangy Princeton first baseman, will be out of the game today because of an attack of appendicitis. His loss will greatly weaken the Tigers, for he was not only the steadiest man in an infield that is subject to streaks of wildness, but he has also been very effective as fifth man on the batting order...
Strubing, Trimble and Keyes are the only men who were on the nine that played the University here last spring. The others are men who have come up from the Freshman squad. The infield, in contrast to Coach Slattery's "rabbit infield," is made up of men of the football build...