Word: shortstop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice, is made up entirely of veterans. John Prior '29 has thus far won the first call to hold down first base, while J. P. Chase '28 is stationed at the second sack. R. C. Sullivan '28 and Captain H. W. Burns '28 have been alternating at shortstop, although the latter will resume his regular post in center field as soon as the squad gets outside the cage, G. E. Donaghy '29, another veteran, has been assigned to third base...
...positions, appears to have solved the problem of a catcher. J. P. Chase '28, although he has only been out several days, seems to fill the second base berth. As outfield practice will be impossible until the team gets outdoors, Captain H. W. Burns '28 is playing at shortstop...
...comes from the Southland, where the big league training camps hold forth. Day by day bulletins come north relating the smallest details of the home team's preparation for the season. Never do pennant prospects appear as bright as in March, when veteran pitchers stage comebacks and rookie shortstop develop into capable regulars without the least difficulty. But all is not sunshine for the team's supporters, for is not Vic Aldridge, one of the best pitchers in the league, still a holdout? Not until he settles his dispute with the treasurer over an increase in salary, will...
...berth, has been taking his turn regularly behind the bat with a recently-formed first-string infield, made up of R. E. Durkee '29, and J. A. Prior '29 alternating at the first-base position, J. J. Carver '30 at the keystone sack, R. C. Sullivan '28 at shortstop, and G. E. Donaghy '29 at the hot corner...
Died. Hugh Ambrose ("Hughey") Jennings, 58, famed, friendly, freckled, red-haired shortstop, onetime manager of the Baltimore Orioles, the Detroit Tigers (when they won three pennants in 1907, 1908, 1909) and field manager of the New York Giants; of meningitis; at his home in Scranton...