Word: southpaw
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...throughout, and the Crimson outfit, both in the outfield and in the inner defenses, played the same sterling, wide-awake ball that brought it victory over the Tigers in the first Big Three series. The hitting was weak throughout. Coach Mitchell's charges collected only four hits off the southpaw offerings of Quill. The Brown hurler was the second left-hander to face the Harvard batters this season, the other having been Woodruff, the Amherst captain, and though the team finally came off victor, the game was in doubt until the final out, and the winning run was pushed over...
...Retired Southpaw Eddie Plank, living on memories and planked steak in Gettysburg, thought of a long word. "Baseball has lost its mightiest pitcher," said...
Left handed Freshmen have a particularly good chance of making the team. There is new only one left-handed man on the University group, and the squad suffers from lack of practice with southpaw fencers...
...Australian Davis Cup players were crushed by second-string Americans in an invitation tournament. Shimizu, Japanese Davis Cup leader, defaulted. Of the Australians, Frederick Kalms went down in the second round before E. F. Chandler of California; Pat O'Hara Wood before S. Howard Voshell, Long Island southpaw, in the finals. Intercollegiate doubles champions Thalheimer and White of Texas wrested the team play from the Australians...
Coach Slattery has decided to use Brown in the box with Cheek behind the bat. The erratic southpaw was a big disappointment in the Dartmouth game, Wednesday, but Coach Slattery still banks upon him heavily for service in the Yale series and he believes that a hard workout today will put him in first class condition. Cheek's throwing to bases and all around aggressive play Wednesday have given him the call to start today, but it is still a problem who will don the mask and protector against Yale. Samborski's batting is too potent a factor...