Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second team victims yesterday when Coach Lake's nine won a 12 to 5 decision from the schoolboys on the University diamond. The Seconds were outhit, 12 to 10, but their flawless fielding game and the quartet of errors contributed by the visitors kept the Crimson team in the lead throughout...
...game scheduled for Saturday may lead Coach Barry to reserve his premier hurler. If he does decide to keep him on the bench this afternoon, Davidson will fill his place. Gautheau, who has amassed an average of .419 in the 17 games played so far, will lead off for Holy Cross at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
Many other Satellites who have no visible claim to distinction are not to be put down by that circumstance. The next best thing to possessing distinction is to seem to possess it. So they confer upon each other various insignia in the form of seats made of lead but plated over with shining gold, which are engraved: "Save the surface and you save...
Until the seventh inning things looked black for the 1928 team on Saturday. Moran had tripled in the second inning, giving the New Hampshire nine a two run lead, and Barbee, the twirling ace of the Harvard Freshmen, had been slightly spiked in covering first base in the next inning and had been forced to retire. Linscott replaced him in the box against his former Alma Mater and, although another run slipped across in the seventh frame, he had control of the situation at all times, striking out eight men in the six innings...
...palr set up from the crack of the pistol. Physically both men appeared in excellent shape, but as in all athletic competition physical condition is not all that counts. Undoubtedly Watters ran a more heady race than Leness and consequently he broke the worsted two yards in the lead. The Crimson half-miler took advantage of the Engineer's broad back to shelter him from a tiring wind until the home stretch, when he raced ahead with sufficient energy stored up to keep the lead until the finish...