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Worcester, Academy sent at well-trained, clean-fielding and hard-hitting nine to Soldiers Field on Saturday and forced the 1927 team to acknowledge a smarting 8 to 4 defeat. The defeat was humiliating because the Freshman led until the last two innings, when six runs rained from the visitors batz overwhelming the Freshmen...
Other features in the meet were Cutcheon's 4.29 3-5 victory in the mile; Kernan's 178 feet javelin toss which outdid by 2 feet Greenidge's throw at Philadelphis last week, and the Crimson's clean sweeps in the broad jump and the low hurdles...
Peter Kelley of the Advertiser and Roger Birtwell of the Post took the other view. Mr. Kelley said, "To be sure it was a hard hit ball, but it bounded squarely into the center fielder's hands and reasonably clean fielding would have stopped it. I don't claim to be an authority, but I've seen a lot of baseball, and I certainly would call it an error." Mr. Kelley was formerly secretary of the Boston Braves and is a member of the Baseball Writers Association...
...Harvard half. Todd and Jenkins singled with one out. Hammond lofted to center field. Slayton walked, clogging the bases, and Cheek drove in Todd and Jenkins with a clean single. Slayton and Cheek came in on a hit by Brown. McGlone popped to the pitcher...
With Howard in the clean-up position, the team attack should be improved. In a practice game 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