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...tight pitching of Booth must go a large share of the credit for the victory. He turned the school boys back with five hits and two walks after he had struck out eleven of their number. He kept himself out of trouble until the last inning, when a miscue of Ellison's opened the way for the two Cushing runs. In the meanwhile, Ullman and Howard had been celebrating their first game by crashing frequent and timely bingles, and the 1927 nine had a six run lead when the little ninth inning trouble robbed Booth of the shut...
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...Booth fanned two of the Cushing batsmen in the first frame, but game one of his few hits when McGrath singled into right field. The Freshmen were equally impotent in their half of the inning, but in the second, they began in earnest. Ellison walked, advanced to third when Morris; the schoolboy second-baseman, bungled Bailey's fast grounder, and scored on Hamlen's long sacrifice fly to center field. A moment later, Urruela, the Cushing catcher, let one of Bird's deliveries slip by him and Bailey crossed the plate with the second...
...three innings in succession after this, Booth turned back the visitors in one, two, three order. He had complete control of the situation and a spectular one-handed catch by Ullman helped keep his record spotless...
...yesterday, the Freshmen bowed to the University team in a seven-inning game, 9 to 4, but they showed a punch that was missing in the Dean Academy game. Barnum held down Coach Slattery's batters except in two bad innings, and the 1927 nine hit Cordingley rather freely. Booth or Gates will be on the mound this afternoon and Coach Davidson expects one of them to turn in a victory