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Four unearned runs poured over the plate for the Quonset Naval Air Station Saturday as Jack Wallace stood on the mound watching a beautifully pitched ball game degenerate into a 4-2 Harvard defeat. Two runs in the ninth on a walk, an error, an infield single, and a fly ball capped the disaster...
...Quonset opened the scoring in the second with two men out, when left fielder Siegfried singled to right field. Priebe then grounded to Jack Falsey, Crimson shortstop, who bobbled the ball and threw to first basemen "Slats" Slattery. Slattery dropped the ball, and the man was safe. Bill Lutz, presuming Priebe out, left third base and Siegfried came roaring around to score while Slattery and second baseman Bob Chapple ran down Priebe...
Wallace and Simons then both clamped down, and the game lost interest until, with two out in the top half of the eighth, Quonset sent Lawson in to pinch-hit for Simons. Lawson bounced a fluke single high over Wallace's head, and then Bart doubled into left field, Lawson going to third. When the ball was thrown in to Lutz, he wheeled and relayed the ball in the general direction of second base trying to catch Bart. The throw was wild, and the runner scored...
...ninth, the first Quonset man walked, and the next attempted to sacrifice. The bunt went to Wallace, who tried to get the man at second. The throw was wild and both runners were safe. Another attempted sacrifice was missed completely by Wallace and went for an infield single, loading the bases. A play at first and a long fly scored two runs for the Navy men, sewing up the ball game...
Coach Floyd Stahl's new and largely untried baseball nine will see its first action tomorrow afternoon when it meets a team from the Quonset Naval Air Training Station in the first Varsity game of the 1944 season. The game will start at 3:15 o'clock on the main diamond at Soldiers Field...