Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opening its season with 22 hits blasted off the offerings of two Boston University pitchers, the Harvard nine wielded a mighty bat in two of the three games played on the southern trip to bring home to soldiers Field a batting average...
This is the highest average recorded by a Crimson team at this stage of the season in a number of years. Last spring the Harvard hitsmiths had compiled a .309 average after the southern trip, while two years ago a paltry 250 told the tale of the early effectiveness of the University batters...
Stellar defensive work has bolstered the attack. A team fielding average of .957 ranks high above the .940 which was the team's record at the end of the southern trip last spring. Only seven errors have been committed in 162 chances...
...these dry times, and until 1924 the Socialists also had a man in the field. Then they were sacrificed to LaFollette's Progressives and are only just being revived. In fact during the last week, while Governor Smith has been attracting crowds at the churches he attended on his Southern trip, that party has been holding a convention in New York to choose candidates and a platform...
...Southern wanderings of the Crimson athlete are over, and the college now awaits only the umpire's call to bat and the crack of the starter's gun to see the multifold activity of spring sport life again in full swing...