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Erratic fielding was one of the chief reasons for the to 2 victory of the Crimson over Cornell last year, and judging from the form that Cornell has shown this year, in making but one error against Dartmouth and Princeton this fault is the longer present. Cornell's defeats have come, without an exception, from strong teams, so its record is better than its percentage of victories
...Birtwell was even more emphatic "it was unquestionably not a home run," he said, "but a perfectly routine error. I am as interested as any one in seeing Todd make a good record, but personalities and prejudice are out of place in baseball scoring...
...question is entirely one of the scorer's judgement, and since the official scorer recorded it as a single and an error it will so stand in the official records, regardless of conflicting opinions...
...opinion in yesterday's sporting columns. The Herald and the Globe called it a home run, giving the Sophomore center-fielder two circuit clouts for the game and four for the season. The Post and the Advertiser ruled it a single, charging the Middlebury center fielder with an error in letting the ball go through him. The CRIMSON, using the official score kept by the Harvard management, took the second stand...
...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...