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...when Hilles drew away and handed over a ten-yard lead to Coxe, the second Yale man. Yale continued to increase her lead, so that Campbell, running anchor, started off with a lead of half a lap over Captain D. F. O'Connell '21. O'Connell started after Campbell and succeeded in decreasing his lead considerably, but Campbell opened up in the last lap and finished a good three-quarters of a lap ahead. In the one-mile relay against M. I. T., Richard Chute '22, the Crimson lead-off man, passed on a ten-yard lead...
...sprints will be well taken care of by F. F. Williams and B. S. Blanchard. Both are fast runners of considerable experience, and under Coach Donovan's tutelage will undoubtedly improve. In the recent Winter Carnival Williams won the 40-yard dash and was lead-off man for the Freshman relay team, on which Blanchard was anchor man. In the quarter the team will have two men in H. B. Davis and P. E. Stevenson who have been running especially well at this distance, and they will form a stiff opposition to the quarter-milers of the opposing teams...
...while Coolidge, Mahan, and Beal, all regulars, are well up in the .300 class. Up to date the team has drawn 96 bases on balls. Abbot heads the run-getters with a total of 21 trips across the plate and Coolidge leads in pilfered bases with 12. Coolidge as lead-off man also is first in drawing passes with 13 free trips to his credit...
Bates, which was the opening game last year, is back on the list in second the lead-off contest. Tufts, also a 1914 opponent, will appear in the Stadium next fall. The two mid season dates are still open, with a chance that Virginia may fill one of them if she is unable to change her game with Vanderbilt in order to come to Cambridge on November 4. There will be no game with Penn. State next year. This was decided upon before Penn State came to the Stadium this fall, when the schedule proved to be unnecessarily heavy...
...playing today, by the overwhelming score of 10 to 4. Pumpelly pitched the game, and though he showed a tendency to be slightly wild, his delivery proved a complete puzzle. The batting order experienced an important shift in this game: Milburn, the second baseman, was put in the lead-off position, with H. Middlebrook second and Captain Middlebrook third. Hunter was placed ahead of Reilly on the list and Rhett went into eighth place...