Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tufts batting aggregation is lead by Ockert, Shea, and Muskativz. Shea has the reputation of being a consistent long distance hitter...
...Duncan, Springfield centerfielder, is a four letter man and a captain-elect of basketball. He is a first rate hitter and an excellent fielder, so good, in fact, has his record been that there is a rumor current to the effect that Duncan has had offers from several-major league outfits...
...leading twirlers in college ranks last season, they include F. B. Cutts '28, Willard Howard '28, R. R. Ketchum '29, and R. M. Whittemore '29, all of them capable men in the box. Cutts' batting eye, which sent him into several games last season as a pinch hitter, makes him also a strong candidate for a post in the outfield when he is called upon to do mound duty...
...bases is what counts. A base on balls is as good as a clean single if there is a home-run slugger in the lineup. The total runs, not the hits, win the game. In the Republican league, James E. Watson plays on the anti-Hoover team, whose hardest hitter in June may well be James E. Watson's good friend, Charles Gates Dawes. Therefore, James E. Watson, small of eye, large of stomach, quick of mind, comfortable of conscience, who can always get and has often accepted a political base on balls in Indiana, last week announced...
...greatest athlete who ever graduated from Boston Latin. In his final year at school, Frank Ryan played on no less than four major teams--football, hockey, baseball, and track, we think it was. Nor was he any mere substitute in these sports, a specialty drop kicker or a pinch hitter. Quite contrary, he captained three of the four teams on which he played...