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George Ezra Abbot '17, of Andover, was last night elected captain of the University baseball team. Abbot has played second base for the past two seasons, his work around the keystone sack being consistently brilliant. He prepared at Noble and Greenough's, played on his school nine, and captained the 1917 Freshman team...
...until the fourth each side was retired in order, no one getting beyond the initial sack. In the University's half of the fourth the scoring began. Nash was out on a grounder down the first base line. Abbot drew a walk and Harte, the next man up, sent him around to third on a clean bingle past second. Mahan flied out to Tibbott. Then Beal came through with a slashing grounder between first and second, which allowed Abbot to go home at a walk and Harte to reach third base. Tibbott's throw to third to catch the latter...
...most important part of the training will come next summer during the encampment period at Tobyhanna. The Aircraft Company is building a peculiar type of observation kites which are used by the thousands in the European war today. These kites are about 80 feet long and have a sack or tail which fills with air and keeps the balloon steady. They rise to a height of 2,000 or 3,000 feet and are connected by a cable to an automobile. The cable has a telephone wire inside so that the operators in the balloon can telephone where they observe...
...Beta Kappa nine 13 to 8, without the aid of the umpire or scorekeeper The scholars were at all times completely at the mercy of the editors, and even their star mathematicians could not solve Sam Hall's cavorting curves. The game was tied up in a sack and dropped overboard in the sixth, when a volley of bingles drove the Intellectualists from their last line of trenches. Frequent substitutions failed to lower the standard of the CRIMSON'S playing, and it will be difficult to select a nine for the remaining victories of the season...
...Safe arrivals at first base (this includes bases on balls, hits, and all other times the initial sack is safely reached...