Word: season
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What makes the chop-down odds so high in this particular case is the fact that the team has been defying expectations in a most puzzling fashion all season. Estimates of its merits have had to be revised almost from week to week; and there is no reason for thinking that this situation will change in the time that remains...
...season gloom was, however, suddenly dispelled by a highly successful trip South, during the spring recess. The varsity won three of four games played on this tour, and several new men performed with a competence not before suspected of them. When the squad returned to Cambridge, hopes for it had risen so high that even an Eastern League pennant seemed within the bounds of possibility...
This was the low point of the season; after it passed, the talents uncovered on the Southern trip began to reassert themselves. And in the beginning of May the Crimson produced some very fine games (most notably, the decisive victories over Boston College, Princeton, and Holy Cross...
...after mid-season it was apparent that raw talent was there in abundance. Few college teams are blessed with three such naturally gifted hitters as Chet Boulris (currently batting .387), George Harrington (.382), and Al Martin (.316). Dick Shima (.282) and Davis (.261) are also basically sound batters. And taken altogether, coach Shepard's starting nine averages just 15 points below...
Byron Johnson has performed steadily throughout the season (is also 4-2, with an E.R.A. of 3.08), and Wally Cook has made sufficient late-season improvement to give Shepard a trio of reliable pitchers. Cook was unimpressive in his first few starts, but his wins over Columbia and Holy Cross, plus an excellent relief-job against Yale have raised his stock considerably...