Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Red...
Throwing a good fast ball and sharp-breaking drop; the Red and Blue twirler mystified the Crimson hitters during the greater part of the game, and was especially effective with men on bases, when he tricked the batters into offering at bad balls and giving the fielders easy chances which were handled in workmanlike style...
...runs, while the visitors picked away at the offerings of F.B. Cutts '28, R.B. Booth '27 and R.R. Ketchum '29 to score 'in six frames. Eight of the visitors' counters crossed the plate with two men out. Two of the three Harvard fielding bobbies were turned to the Red and Blue account in the scoring column...
Behind the pitching of Sanford the Red and Blue nine hit hard and timely to tally 11 runs on 12 hits. Sanford's ability to bear down in the pinches was absent in the work of the Crimson pitchers, who were unable to hold in leash the visitors hits whenever hits meant runs. Captain Tremper of Pennsylvania drove out a home run with two men on the basepaths...
Before we left the Executives of the American Red Cross had taken up their headquarters in Memphis and were handling the relief work. Such is the organization that has been developed and so many have been the things that have been done for the relief work, that where as several years ago the deaths would very probably have mounted into the hundreds, and probably in other floods did number even thousands, in this present situation the casualty list is now something under one hundred people...