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...University Second baseball team fell before the onslaught of the St. John's Preparatory School team of Dancers on Soldiers Field yesterday by a score of 5 to 2. The schoolboys touched E. L. Melloy '29 for seven hits, but the Sophomore twirler kept the blows well scattered, never allowing more than two hits in any one inning Carnes, pitching for the visitors, did an artistic job on the mound holding the second team to three scattered hits...
...struck in the eye by a batted ball in the Princeton game, and has seen little service since. The coaches have been training him as a hurler this season, and Coach Mitchell said last night that he might fill a relief pitching role if the visitors hit the starting twirler hard. Howard pitched on his school team at Middlesex...
Barbee, who shut out Amherst last Saturday will hurl again today, to give the first string Crimson twirler another workout before the Brown game next Saturday. Wesleyan will start its first string pitcher. Travis, on the mound this afternoon...
Throwing a good fast ball and sharp-breaking drop; the Red and Blue twirler mystified the Crimson hitters during the greater part of the game, and was especially effective with men on bases, when he tricked the batters into offering at bad balls and giving the fielders easy chances which were handled in workmanlike style...
...possible that J. N. Barbee '25 who last year held the visitors to seven hits in eight innings, may face the Terrier batsmen this afternoon. Yesterday Mitchell was uncertain whether his hurling choice would be Barbee or F. B. Cults '28 who starred as relief twirler in the Yale series last June...