Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trying to substitute pure power for the polish it lacked, the Varsity baseball nine was stalled Saturday afternoon by the veteran Lincoln Mohawks, 3 to 2 in the thirteenth inning. The excellent bat work of the Crimson could not make up for the brevity of the pre-season practice period and the Varsity contributed four telling errors to the Mohawks...
Harvard surged ahead in the second frame with a two-run rally which the Lincoln squad countered with a tally in their half of the inning. In the eighth the Mohawks succeeded in tying up the contest and went on to score the deciding marker in the thirteenth...
...such day was July 4, 1863. After three years of military bungling by Lincoln's generals, Robert E. Lee had invaded the North and came close to smashing the Union. Actually on that Fourth the war had already been won by the Union, for on that day Lee began to retreat from Gettysburg, and on that day Vicksburg fell. Fourth of July crowds were not aware of either battle's end or of what they meant...
Tomorrow afternoon will see the Varsity baseball team open the first summer diamond campaign in Harvard history when it meets the Lincoln Mohawks at 3:30 o'clock in Lincoln. This game will inaugurate an informal but hectic Varsity season which will continue until September 1 with two or three games per week...
...Mohawks are members of the local Twilight League and have already won their first two League contests. Although the Crimson nine has not joined the amateur circuit, tomorrow's meeting has been arranged as part of Lincoln's Fourth of July effort to help the USO. A return match on Soldiers Field may be scheduled in the near future...