Word: sackers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the starting nine for tomorrow has not been definitely named, virtually the entire infield will be intact from last season. In the inner circle only third sacker Gil Whittemore has left, so the likely openers are Ned Fitzgibbons at first, Captain Bart Harvey at second, Thayer Drake at short, and Sophomore Jim Gallagher at the hot corner. Gallagher's appointment is not final but at present he leads all other contenders for the post...
...Whittemore set the rally off to a weak but effective start when he got a life on the Eli third-string third-sacker's low throw to first. Cleo O'Donnell twice failed with sacrifice bunts, then punched his fourth single to short left. Both advanced on Berg's bunt, and Whittemore came home after Bart Harvey's long fly to left field. Bull Barnes followed with another outfield single to drive in O'Donnell, and that was the ball game...
Harvey's less-impressive, but equally-effective drive came in the sixth with one on. The second-sacker was finally taken out in the eighth with the ball game sewed up. It was the first time in a year and a half of intercollegiate ball that Harvey did not finish a game...
...Crimson inner defense allowed the lone score. After Lawrence slugger Nick Rodis whaled a triple to deep left, Rudman issued his only pass to Joe Hennessey. Then, with men on first and third, the Lawrence squad pulled a double steal, successful because shortstop Jim Gallagher and second sacker Vinnie Leahy crossed their signals on a cut-off play designed to nail Rodis at the plate...
...Second sacker Bart Harvey accumulated two bingles and put on a show of smooth baserunning which drew praise from Coach Floyd Stahl. Catcher Paul Delahoyde's handling of the pitchers was also an exceptional feature of the informal contest...