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Brooks Nye Heath...
Captain Hampton Green's bog-busters chewed switchbacks down a steep hillside of ice-hard dirt in a day and a half, ferried a river, scratched up the other side. Right on their heels, Lieut. Colonel Heath Twichell set his Negro engineers to bridging the tumbling water, singing as they sawed. Wading waist deep in the fast icy stream, they put the bridge across in 36 hours, sang hymns at a Sunday service down by the riverside after the job was done...
...Harvard summary: ab r h po a e Heath, lf 4 0 0 1 0 0 Fitz, 1b 4 0 0 15 0 0 Harvey, 2b 4 2 1 3 4 0 Fitzgibbons, cf 4 1 2 3 0 1 Barnes, rf 4 2 2 1 0 0 Gallagher, 3b 4 1 2 0 4 1 Drake, ss 4 0 1 3 5 0 Hamlen, c 4 0 3 1 0 0 Berg...
...Fitzgibbons hit singles that went to all fields. This barrage seemed only to whet their appetites, for there was no let-up in the third as three more runs resulted from Ned Fitzgibbons's home run (welcome proof that his batting eye has returned after an almost disastrous slump), Heath's walk, and successive singles by Gallagher and "Hoss" Hamlen. Four successive blows in the next inning added two more runs as the rampage continued. After the opposition had registered three times in the bottom half of the fifth, the Harvard stick-swingers roared back with single runs...
With two away in the seventh, Brooks Heath, Crimson centerfielder who had replaced Ned Fitzgibbons in the fifth, clouted a long drive to left which escaped the Bruin fielder for a triple. Heath hesitated rounding third, allowing the outfielder to relay the ball in to the third baseman, whose hurried throw to the plate was wild. Fidler, on his knees a quarter of the way down the third base line lunged at the ball, and in one motion grabbed it and put it on Heath, who was attempting to hook-slide around him, for the out that proved...