Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Amherst was shut out, 5-0 by the University baseball team in a well-played game at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. W. B. Felton '19 held the Purple batters to three hits, two of which were of the scratch variety, and was given good support by his teammates. The University nine showed a marked improvement in every department of the game, and played a far better brand of ball than they have exhibited in any game this season. The defense of the team was decidedly stiffened, while the Crimson batters touched Zink, Amherst's best pitcher, for a total...
...subject for a systematic experiment with dynamite. Watch the professor: he feels it too. If anyone were within miles to observe him during the of attenuated seven-minute interval before his class, he too would be seen to peer dreamily out of the window, to yawn cavernously, and scratch his unhappy neck in anticipation of that soft collar which he is to assume in June. He too is looking forward to white ducks and seaside tennis courts and steady jib-filling breezes. He too is making furtive plans for that sleepy August canoe-trip, or that ankle-twisting scramble through...
...successful informal track carnival was held at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The University and Freshman teams competed in three handicap field events; the shot-put, hammer-throw and high-jump. C. A. Clark, Jr., '19 won the shot-put from scratch, with a throw of 40 feet, 4 1-2 inches. G. A. Saxton '22 placed second and R. E. Jackson '19, third...
...Krogness '21 easily won the high-jump, from scratch, with a jump of 5 feet, 7 inches. M. H. Dill '20 and R. Page '22, both with handicaps, finished second and third respectively...
...meet this afternoon C. A. Clark '19 in the shot-put, G. C. Krogness '21 in the high-jump, and A. Stevens '19, University captain in the hammer-throw are all entered at scratch. R. E. Jackson '19 and G. Barker '19 in the shot-put, A. Perkins '19 in the high-jump, and G. D. Flynn '19, in the hammer-throw will receive small handicaps...