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Gone are Lupe Lupien, Art Johns, Bob Gannett, Dick Grondahl, and several losser lights, but last year's Freshman team has provided many capable replacements. The mound staff is shaping up pretty well, with Captain Tom Healey ready for a bigger year than over before. Behind him are Charley Brackett, Lou Clay, Burgey Ayres, Jack Schwede, and a couple of other comers...
Gone are such luminaries as Artie Johns, Lupe Lupien, Dick Grondahl, Slim Curtiss, and Bob Gannett--not to mention Rud Hoye and Joe Soltz, dependable outer gardeners. In addition, an appendectomy has forced right fielder Bill Tully to drop out of school this year. All told, Stahl is left with Captain Tom Healey and Bob Fulton as his only experienced battery, shortstop Fred Keyes, and left fielder Gene Lovett...
Infield material is less abundant, and wide-open scraps are certainties for at least two positions. Colorful Sophomore Ed Buckley has a strong inside track for the first base job, held down by Lupe Lupien for three years. The sole veteran of Varsity infield play, Fred Keyes, appears to have the shortstop job sewed...
Charley Devens was the only Crimson athlete in the modern era who became a full-fledged big leaguer; and he quit baseball shortly after he got into the big show. Maybe Lupien will give Harvard another big timer some...
...year ahead of Lupien on the minor league ladder leading to Boston is one Paul Campbell, plucked off the North Carolina campus. Campbell spent last year in Louisville and did a corking job at first base. Then, of course, there is always a fellow named Foxx on hand when the Back Bay Bombers trek south for the opening practices...