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Concrete proof that this year's baseball team is wielding the hickory with better effect than last was obtained yesterday afternoon when the compiled batting averages for 15 games showed the team to be hitting for .297 as compared to .264, the mark achieved by the 1930 nine at mid-season...
...score. The Crimson team solved Taraganski's pitching before the Wildcat hurler had fairly gotten his arm limbered up, garnering four hits and three runs in each of the first two innings. It was the third consecutive win for the Harvard nine, which seems to be making a mid-season recovery after commencing the spring with a series of colorless games...
Like baseball watches who say that the team that leads the league on the Fourth of July will win the pennant, hockey followers also have a mid-season superstition. They say that the Stanley Cup is won in January. Of the ten major league teams that begin this week the critical middle month of their activity, four stand high in the running...
...Ellsworth Vines, 18, unknown, beat Francis T. Hunter, second ranking U. S. player. Entering last week the annual invitation tournament of the Sea Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club ?a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later coached by Mercer Beasley who also developed Clifford Sutter, national intercollegiate champion...
Last week at its mid-season meeting the U. S. Polo Association's handicap committee issued an important demotion and an important accolade. To Winston F. C. Guest, hard-riding No. 2, next to Thomas Hitchcock Jr. the longest hitter in the game, fell the demotion-reduction of his handicap from nine goals to eight. Always erratic, Guest has been expected to have poor afternoons, but this year in trial matches among contestants for the International team his poor afternoons have come oftener than before, his streaks of brilliant scoring more seldom. Critics who had considered him sure...