Word: infielding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days of fair Kentucky weather had made the track at Churchill Downs hard and dusty, a strip of yellow cardboard between the high white stands and the infield where, from an immense Maypole, hundreds of small flags slanted to the green turf. Mutuel clerks in their shirt-sleeves leaned in the windows along the brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore...
...might as well decree the outcome of the ball game up in the Hanover hills today. If MacHale Pitches he should add to his present record of four victories. There is no telling what the infield will do to make this decree go awry...
...Harvard triumph was due to the fact that Page on the mound kept the Wildcat batters from connecting disastrously, either passing the players absolutely, or forcing them to hit weakly into the infield or to pole easy pop flies to the outfield. While at times the Crimson hurler seemed distinctly without control, throwing wide of the plate and alternately forcing the batters to duck hastily, each time he seemed about to load the bases for New Hampshire via the base on balls route the visitors failed to make any timely bingles, allowing Page to retire the side on easy outs...
Captain McGrath, who has been transplanted from infield to outfield, and back to shortstop, adding third base to his repertoire in last Saturday's fiasco with Syracuse, will return to the shortstop position this afternoon, while Mays, who covered this section of the diamond on Saturday, has been shifted to second base, in place of Kiernan, Sophomore ball-tosser who was slightly unsteady in the last contest. At third Mitchell hopes to reinstate DesRoches, veteran baseman who has been out of the game for some time due to a wrenched knee. DesRoches's absence from the infield has been keenly...
Mitchell's plans for the season call for Captain E.H. McGrath '31 to play second base, but injuries to the outfield department of the squad have caused him to play the Crimson leader in center field, his place in the infield being filled by R.D. Kiernan '33, the only Sophomore and non-letter man in the starting lineup...