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...Crimson nine dropped its second league tilt to the veteran Cornell aggregation, but there were some bright spots in defeat. Torbie Macdonald, fleet center fielder, got two hits in five trips to the plate and continued to lead the Harvard regulars in hitting with a .353 mark. Charley Brackett was rushed to Lou Clay's resene and hurled five innings of good ball, giving him further claim on the number two pitching assignment...
...Crimson outfit is rated on about a par with last year's all powerful aggregation and is a heavy favorite in this afternoon's tilt...
...first game, the team was beaten by the Navy plebes by a score of 2 to 1, although it was just an informal, five-inning tilt. Augusta, Military Academy fell before the vengeance of the Freshmen, 11 to 4, but Staunton was able to eke out a 3 to 2 win in 11 innings. The Yardlings overpowered Massanutten Military Academy, 25 to 8, but were even more badly beaten themselves on Saturday by Mercersburg...
...into the earth, its walls 6 ft. thick and impervious to heaviest shell fire, is not invulnerable. It must somehow be anchored. When repeated high-explosive blasts have blown the earth off its top and away from its footings, further blasts may get under and rock the blockhouse bodily, tilt it out of alignment so that its guns within-carefully adjusted to cover precisely plotted areas of fire-can no longer be trained where they are needed...
With both sides working at top pitch, Saturday's tilt showed far superior stickwork than the game at the Boston Garden a week before. After the contest, Clark Hodder said that his team played its best game of the year, but was simply unable to counter the Eli attacks...