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After early season ups and downs, the Crimson has developed an attack to match Berg's consistently fine and sometimes spectacular work on the mound. Provided that the poor batting background at Brown's Aldrich Field doesn't throw their timing off, the Harvard line-up should keep hurler Nichols and the Bruin outfielders hustling this afternoon
...Saturday the ball club will complete a stiff weekend of baseball, by facing the Langdon Field team at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Either Jack Stanton or Irv Rudman is scheduled to handle the mound duties...
...served not only as revenge for a previous loss to the soldiers, but also brought the Crimson's summer record up to four wins and six losses. Berg on the mound and Need Fitzgibbons at the plate proved the shot-in-the-arm necessary to raise the team from the doldrums...
This afternoon the team will go against the Boston Hellenics, with Sophomore Irv Rudman as Coach Stahl's mound choice. Ned Fitzgibbons will return to his centerfield post, in the hope that he will snap out of the slump which has affected his game so noticeably of late. Also scheduled are games with Fort Banks next Wednesday, and tentative dates with the Camp Devens team and the Lincoln Mohawks on Friday and Saturday. Either Joe Phelan or Moe Berg will hurl against the Fort Banks team...
...work of Mark Twain is America's literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...