Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change of catchers, as Sheldon, playing at first base earlier in the spring has been obliged to become the receiving end again of the Devens-Sheldon battery of last year's fame. Fincke was Coach Mitchell's early season choice for catcher, and has now taken the first sack job on trade, where he has kept up his steady good work, and has helped to make up for Lupien's failings...
...first frame Brown put over a run when Harris scored on Woods wild throw to Fincke, who has exchanged his catcher's berth for Sheldon's customary first sack job. Lupien evened the score in the next inning on Fincke's infield drive. The Bruins tallied twice in the fourth, with the help of two singles and a criminal overthrow by Sheldon but Harvard got a brace of runs in the sixth, resulting from a neat drive by McCaffrey. Harris opened up for the Providence nine in the eighth inning, rolling a grounder through Mays at second, and scored...
...since the Thursday's 29 to 3 rout of the Boston University nine has been noised abroad, it is generally felt that last season's come-down will remain merely an unpleasant memory in the Harvard camp. Gleason is Coach Mitchell's present selection to cover the initial sack, as a result of a little competition for this position in which Sheldon, Adams, and Lockwood have been the other claimants...
Does your girl give you the sack...
...they would make for Old Mexico by way of Bakersfield. Ysobel Nunez and Alexandro Deloa said they were going to take their families to Fresno, maybe find winter work there. Bernardo Ries said he would go along. Cesario Delgado hiked over to a doctor's barn and stole a sack of barley, which he distributed among the parting families. With dull adios they scattered...