Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University baseball team's first game with Holy Cross will be played this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Fitton Field, Worcester. Whether Hartford, Brennan or Slater will pitch will depend on how they warm up in the preliminary practice. Mansfield or Ahearn will be in the box for Holy Cross...
...dialogue, also, is handled with admirable directness and naturalness, and the characterization of the principal figures is excellent. Something of the same admirable restraint appears in R. J. Walsh's "Little Wanderers," which treats a difficult situation with delicacy and good taste. K. B. Townsend's "Deus ex Box Car" is marked by vivid and convincing description, and his picture of the brakeman and his wife and the happy-go-lucky youngster who "don't have to work" is skilfully drawn...
...University baseball team will play Amherst on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Reserved seats, at 75 cents, will be on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, and at the box office on the field. General admission tickets are 50 cents each...
Hartford's work in the box was very encouraging. Against a team of seasoned, hard-hitting players, he pitched heady, consistent ball from start to finish. His curves were working well and although he only struck out three men, he gave only six scattered hits and passed one man. With proper support in the field he would have won his game. Skillen improved as the game went on and had eleven strikeouts to his credit...
Hartford has been chosen to pitch for Harvard and Captain Skillen will be in the box for Dartmouth. The University team will be without the services of Leonard, who is still nursing the tendon which he strained in the Army game. The injury proved more serious than was at first supposed, and trainer Donovan does not wish to take any chances with it. In Leonard's absence, Pritchett will be at third. Briggs will be back again at first base...