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Saturday's victory was chiefly due to the air-tight pitching of Mahan, coupled with the errorless support and opportune hitting of his team-mates. The University twirler was decidedly stingy with his hits, allowing but six well-scattered ones and whiffing nine of the opposing batsmen. In addition he headed off a dangerous rally of the opposing team by a spectacular barehanded stop of Hoyt's sizzling grounder just in time to stop Lee at the plate. Hoyt's contribution, as it was with only one man down, would undoubtedly have gone for a clean bingle had not Mahan...
...getting beyond the initial sack. In the University's half of the fourth the scoring began. Nash was out on a grounder down the first base line. Abbot drew a walk and Harte, the next man up, sent him around to third on a clean bingle past second. Mahan flied out to Tibbott. Then Beal came through with a slashing grounder between first and second, which allowed Abbot to go home at a walk and Harte to reach third base. Tibbott's throw to third to catch the latter was low and Shea lost it, allowing Harte to score easily...
...timely hitting the University baseball team has brought up its batting average from .239 to .247 during the last five or six games. The fielding average, however, has gone down appreciably, from .956 to .946. Harte continues to head the list with the high average of .400, 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...
...pitchers Whitney has a perfect record with 6 wins and no defeats. Mahan comes next with seven games won and one lost, the defeat being at the hands of Catholic University during the southern trip. Garritt follows Mahan with three victories, one set-back and one tie game, his defeat being in the second Brown game and the tie game against Virginia...
...individual batting averages of the nine are: Harte, .400; Coolidge, .359; Mahan, .353; Harrison, .333; Beal, .306; Abbot, .259; Knowles, .250; Garritt, .234; Percy, .215; Nash, .215; Fripp...