Word: shove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scrubs made their most evident stand in the ninth, but it was really an up-hill fight for seven innings, and the last served only as a deserved culmination. The visitors started off with a rush, three men crossing the plate in the first. The initial shove was given them by J. C. Watson '23, when he walked the two first St. John batters. The schoolboys followed up their advantage, Sweeney and C. MacDonald both singled, scoring their team-mates, and Sweeney coming in on MacDonald's hit. O'Hayre was safe on an error, but the next three batters...
...Haven twenty years ago the Elis gave the initial shove which sent this musical comedy on its career. Today Harvard sees, risen in its midst, this same "Floradora" resplendent with the charms of a new sextet. Can Johnny Harvard finish what the Elis began? Will front row, stage door and "standing room" be filled with Cambridge undergraduates anxious to give admiration to fair chorines? Will Harvard carry on? It will. And "Leandro" recalling, amid tumultuous applause, his triumph of two decades past, will be forced to the admission that in yet another field the Crimson has gone...
...clock down-stream, starting at Red Top. Immediately afterwards the second crews will race over the same course. In case of necessary postponement of the first crews' contest, it will be rowed down-stream at about 6.30. The observation trains will start at the time that the crews shove off from their boat houses...