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...average, just 124 points above his closest rival among the regulars, Mort Dunn. Playing the full nine innings in every one of the team's ten contests, Chapple was the only member of the starting nine to hit safely in every one of the games. In addition, the keystone-sacker came in second in the total bases column, finishing one behind the 19 of Wallace, who, despite an average of only 270, smashed out two doubles, two triples, and one home run to lead the squad in extra-base blows...
Fresh out of Duke University in 1940, where he had been captain of the baseball team, Davis joined Connie Mack's club, but spent his first year behind $45,000 Benny McCoy, the A's widely publicized second sacker who had been obtained only the season before. Still, he managed to play thirty-five games with the Mackmen in '41, and he became a regular the next year, hitting...
Coulson, Freshman first-sacker, who started playing ball at the age of nine, stands 5 feet, 11 inches, throws right, and hits a long ball from the port side. As captain of the Lawrence High outfit, he pounded out a merry 440 average over the past two years, was named in his Junior year as all-state first baseman, and in this year, runner-up to Newton's Johnny Recco, recently signed by the New York Yankee farm system. Coulson has played in two all-scholastic state tourneys at Braves Field, but thinks his biggest thrill came last spring against...
Four veterans of last summer's team, which played service teams and colleges all over the Boston area, are returning to College this term. They include Bill Sutz, summer third sacker, Slattery, first baseman last year, Jim Clark, veteran outfielder, and Billy Hardy, catcher for the summer aggregation...
...this point Reilly walked, to force in one run, and Walt Sorgi hit a single to left, tying the score. With the bases loaded and only one out, however, Brooks Health and Danny Shields, latest Crimson third sacker, failed to produce...