Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent football coach in Pennsylvania has come out with the statement that he has found his teams to have greater speed, and stamina when they cut out noon lunch. Christy Mathewson, the former "Big Six" of the New York "Giants", found in his own ease that he could pitch more effectively and "last" longer on two meals a day. In "reminiscing" recently he remarked that no man could be effective after eating any considerable amount and if two meals a day are enough for a ball player, they certainly ought to do an average citizen...
...Aggies bring three veterans from the last year's team which went down to defeat at the hands of the Crimson 6-0. Collins, who last year allowed the University eight hits, four of which came in the opening inning, will pitch again today...
...possible then to see some justification of such activities. In them one is constantly thrown in touch with men of similar interests; contact is easy. Not so easy is it to develop abiding friendships when the highest pitch of emotion must come out of books; that may be a better way, but it is more difficult: most have not sufficient appreciation. So they seek contact elsewhere; the unfortunate part is that often--usually--they do not know what they have...
Although Northeastern was defeated by Tufts Saturday 5-1, the infield of the former team which has been entirely changed since last year, showed surprising speed, pulling off three fast double plays. Cotter, who struck out five men in five innings Saturday, will pitch for the visitors' this afternoon...
...long been thrust out of a window gloomily expecting an accident to happen at the street corner. And General Bramwell Booth, the hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up into a little O of suction, his fingers pressing to his ear the receiver of a machine which overcomes his deafness, his whole body leaning half across the table in his eagerness to hear every world...