Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University nine started fast and played smooth ball until Booth got in a hole in the seventh, when errors in judgment allowed the visitors to chase over their first counter. The Crimson batters touched the Rhode Island pitcher for 12 hits while Booth was holding the losing artillery to seven blows, six of which were bunched in the last two sessions...
This will also be the opening game of the B. U. season, so that it is impossible to predict the exact playing strength of the invading nine. Coach Gaw's outfit however, boasts several veterans of which McDonald the pitcher and Kincaide heavy-hitting outfielder, are especially well known in college diamond competition. Last year the University nine won with case, but B. U. roofer who are journeying to Cambridge an masse are confident that the result will be reversed this year...
...Klondike. Thomas Meighan has succeeded in getting a good story. It tells of a major-league baseball player in the spring training camps of Florida. He is a pitcher who gets fired and plunges into real estate. There is of course a girl. Ring Lardner is the author, contributing' his shrewd and humorous observations on baseball players' foibles gathered in his old days as a sports writer...
...military cemetery at West Point was laid to rest last week Margaret Corbin, alias "Sergeant" Molly Pitcher. A delegation from the Daughters of the American Revolution attended the ceremony. For on Nov. 16, 1776, Sergeant Molly's husband, a gunner, was wounded in the battle of Fort Washington and she served his gun until wounded* by three grapeshot. Until last week she rested in a snug grave on J. P. Morgan's estate at Highland Falls...
...five Fascists accused of the murder of Socialist Matteotti? (See ITALY.) 7) In what act of Ibsen's Ghosts does Libertine Alving appear? (See THE THEATRE.) 8) What two great cities were last week connected by commercial telephone for the first time? (See COMMONWEALTH.) 9) Was Molly Pitcher killed in action ? (See POLITICAL NOTES. ) 10) What have buggies in common with bananas? (See Music.) 11) In the past six years, how many feet (on the average) have the levels of the Great Lakes dropped ? (See SCIENCE) . 12) After what U. S. Admiral would it be stupid to christen...