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...HAVEN, CONN., May 2.--The Yale baseball team today defeated Amherst in a long and loosely played game by the score of 25 to 4. O'Hearn and De Sibour, playing first and third bases for Yale respectively, drove out home runs. Pond and Hickey pitched for the Blue team and Dann caught, while Leete, Parker, and Warner comprised Amherst's battery...
Flemish was the language of a great culture. It was the language of Charles V, Rubens, Van Dyck, Teniers, Reynaert the Fox and a hundred other immortals. But political troubles, culminating in the inclusion of the Flemings (Lowlanders) in the new Belgian state (1830), drove the language from power. Says a correspondent of The New York Times: " Political leaders have feared that popular intellectual development would make the Flemish less docile, but now, partly as a result of the war, they have been forced to restore the University of Ghent to its cultural heirs. The Flemish have their university...
Hotchkiss at Lakeville, defeated 12-10, was the next victim of the 1926 nine. Heavy hitting by both sides featured the game, but the Freshmen bunched theirs to advantage in the seventh and drove in five runs for a lead which they kept...
...received a severe pounding and lost 14-0. In the next game with Young on the mound pitching very good ball, the University out-hit the midshipmen at Annapolis and won 7-4. On Thursday the University was defeated in Washington, D. C. by the Catholic University nine which drove two Crimson pitchers to the bench and won by the score of 13-7 after piling up eight runs in the first inning. In the final game the Crimson scored two runs and shut out Maryland State College due to Young's excellent pitching and the support given...
...Annapolis game last Wednesday the University players were able to bat themselves to victory by the score of 7-4 after trailing up to the last half of the seventh inning. It was then that with the score 4-3 in favor of the midshipmen, the University drove in two runs on doubles by Gordon and Jenkins and a triple by Hammond. Two more runs...