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Lyon, the Dartmouth pitching ace, who has twirled the team to victory against Cornell, Columbia, and Brown, three conquerors of the University, will be Coach Tesreau's choice for the mound position this afternoon. Brown, the southpaw who has shown steady improvement since the season began, will be his most probable opponent. Lyon has by far the better record, but Coach Slattery expects Brown to surprise the Soldiers Field bleachers. In practice, he has failed to show the lack of control that marred his early season hurling, and his performance in the closing innings of the Holy Cross fray...
...relief pitcher in the last three innings. He allowed two hits, both of which really ought to have been cut off by Hammond. He fanned Gautreau and Captain Simendinger walked Riopel, and hit Cote. His strike out of Simendinger came with the bases choked in the sixth. The Harvard southpaw looks more and more like a Yale series possibility. He will probably start the Wednesday game against Dartmouth...
...last Saturday. Booth, the Freshman star, pitched a 5 to 4 win for the University. Coach Slattery wanted to give the team practice in hitting a left-hand delivery in anticipation of the game tomorrow, when it will probably oppose Townsend's left hand shoots. Accordingly, Casto, the University southpaw, filled the box for the combination team. The score was tied 4 to 4 in the eighth inning when Todd crashed one of Casto's deliveries for a home run which won the game. The Second team was represented yesterday by Captain Rice who played at third base, Field...
Brown is slated to be Coach Slattery's starting pitcher. The erratic southpaw has been overshadowed by the brilliance of Spalding and Toulmin for the past three weeks, but it is a matter of common knowledge that he has a better assortment of pitching tricks than any other man on the squad. At his best, he is almost invincible. Wildness was his early season drawback, and. Coach Slattery has been concentrating on this weakness with the result that Brown's control was excellent in a practice set to with the Freshmen last week...
Coach Slattery sent in Brown to show his left handed stuff in the eighth, and the southpaw proved the most effective of the three University moundsmen. One score trickled across in the eighth on a bit, a sacrifice, and another passed ball by Larrabee. With that single exception Brown was unhittable in the two innings he officiated on the rubber...