Word: playing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock. The strength of the University players is problematical, for as in all other sports this spring, the team has been built up from an absolutely fresh start, with very little nucleus around which to work. Two men of considerable experience, however, are included in the number scheduled to play today. They are E. B. Benjamin '18, who captained his fall Freshman team, and F. M. Warburg '19, who played on the 1919 team. The following men will compose the team this afternoon: E. Benjamin '18, F. M. Warburg '19, A. A. Claflin '20, A. E. Kirk...
...been pending for some time, has now been definitely settled. Both the University and the Freshman teams will meet the Technology men next Wednesday, May 8, in the Stadium. It was doubtful for a time whether the M. I. T. squad would be in condition in time to play the University on Wednesday, as it is scheduled to compete with Cornell at Ithaca Saturday...
...running and failure to hit in the crucial moment. Twice players were caught off base by the pitcher. Peirson, who, with Gammack formed the University battery, held Portland to four safeties and might have scored a shut-out except for poor support. Wolverton, who replaced Captain Gross at shortstop, played an excellent game in the infield, accepting six chances without error. A double play, Hallo-well to Bright to Johnson, was a feature of the day's play. Dickson at second base made a very pretty catch of Burn's fly in right field in the first inning...
...Freshman or University baseball and tennis teams who are to play in the games that will be held in Cambridge on May 4, and who have examinations on that afternoon, will start their tests at 1 o'clock so as to be free for their athletic engagements at a later hour. On Saturday, May 11, when the University baseball and track teams and the 1921 track team play here, the same arrangements will be made...
...Parisian journalist who has been right in the thick of it since the war started is bound to be interesting. The French press has had no small part to play in this great conflict. Upon it has the government depended to a large extent for informing the French people what was going on, and yet keeping up their spirit and resolution. As may be expected, this was a difficult task, for with German hordes pouring in upon them, with a horrible and thorough war being fought on their territory, the French people could not be salved into determination by honeyed...