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...Barbee '28, the leading moundsman of the Crimson staff, is slated to pitch. The choice of his opponent is uncertain. Fons, star hurler who was roughly handled in a relief role in the first Holy Cross tilt, may draw the assignment, although indications point toward the selection of Dobens, a southpaw pitcher who plays in the outfield when he is not occupying the box, Dobens appeared in the ninth inning of the first game, and did not get a fair chance to display his wares against Harvard. Last Saturday at New Haven he shut out the strong Yale nine...
Henry Chauncey '28 regular backstop of the Harvard aggregation, still leads the vanguard of the batsmen, although his figure took a 13 point plunge during the week's play. A lone single was the total of his activities with the ash in the Georgetown tilt, and he failed to hit against Colgate. At Providence, I. R. Duchin '27 took his place behind...
...McKinlock Hall dormitory crew, which won the dormitory championship last week, defeated the Middlesex oarsmen by three lengths in a half mile tilt on the Charles yesterday afternoon. In this clash the dormitory eight lead from the start and displayed a brand of watermanship and rowing ability clearly superior to that of the schoolboys, covering the half mile in 2 minutes 43 1-5 seconds...
With the narrowing down of the baseball schedule and the improved pitching met with in games with more powerful teams, the batting average of the University nine has taken a decided drop. Investigation of the batting and fielding figures, exclusive of yesterday's tilt with Georgetown discloses that while the defense has tightened enough to raise its fielding record seven points, the hitting, despite the outburst against the University of Maine, has fallen ten notches. From a 304 mark the figure of the Crimson hitsmiths has shrunk to 294, the lowest since the southern trip, and the first average below...
...Today's Tilt Decisive...