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...problem now facing you, gentle reader, is to grasp the elementary principles of the game of cricket. Cricket differs from baseball in several fundamental respects. In the first place, the batsman can hit to all sides of him, instead of only forward as in baseball. There is no such thing as a foul ball in cricket; play can take place in all 360 degrees around the batsman. This naturally makes for more fluid play: the batsman uses a far greater variety of strokes than in baseball because he can hit in any direction, and the fielders have to cover more...
...handing Harvard its second defeat in three games, Wilson showed he had everything but control. He struck out only three men over the route, walked five, and beaned leadoff batter Ed Foynes in the last half of the fourth inning. Foynes, fourth leading batsman in the league last season, was released from Stillman yesterday. He suffered no complications and may start against Holy Cross on Wednesday. Sophomore John Canepa replaced Foynes in center field...
...addition to the game's significance in final league standings, four Crimson batsman have a chance of boosting their averages to league-leading positions...
Before the first Yale batsman faces Harvard this afternoon 5000 men will march, or cavort about Soldiers Field. They are members of all the classes holding reunions: some are here for their third-year reunion, some for their sixth, some for their fiftieth. One might assume that such a parade is at least as important as the athletic contest it precedes. Indeed, it should be. It is a homecoming celebration...
Each side used a 12-man team, and the top batsman for the Crimson was Wright with 23 runs. The second-innings stand by M. I. T. was not officially scheduled and was merely to give more chance to play before the 5 p. m. deadline...