Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singles match he "toyed" with Harold Throckmorton, 6-1, 6-2. When things grew dull, or when Throckmorton strove a little too valiantly, Tilden let loose a few fast ones that made Jove and his thunder look like a slow-ball pitcher...
...Neil, the visiting pitcher, was knocked off the rubber in that contest, but he is likely to do much better this year. He has not yet lost a game, and in his last start on the mound he struck out 13 batters, defeating Allen-Chalmers School...
...Harvard hitters, who started their season like whirlwinds by hammering three Middlesex pitchers all over the field, stumped in the three succeeding games. They came back last Friday against Wentworth, however, and they ought to give pitcher O'Neil, some bad moments this afternoon...
...noise in the Harvard victory was Spalding's pitching. He mixed up fast balls, curves, and puzzling floaters in a manner that kept the Tigers guessing--and guessing wrong. The slender Crimson pitcher allowed two hits, both of which were decidedly scratchy. He also walked two men, and all four Tigers waited on the bases for the hit that never came. Two of them died on third, one on second, and the other on first. Spalding is not a strike-out pitcher--he only fanned one man Saturday. His forte is rather to fool the enemy sluggers into popping...
Princeton has lost three games this far, and two of these were to comparatively weak teams, Stuyvesant High School and Hill School. The Cornell Freshmen won a pitchers' battle form the first-year Tigers last Saturday by "2" to 1 Score. Carloftes, the Princeton Pitcher, who will face Harvard today showed real promise...