Word: infielding
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George Tittman, starting his first game, caught the Purple infield flatfooted in the first of the second with a drag bunt along the foul line. Craig Woodruff, handcuffed by Bruninghaus in their preceding meeting, then stepped into one of the cocky Crusader's fast shoots and propelled it out into center for a triple. A moment later he scored on Captain Maguire's infield roller to give the Crimson its first two runs...
...Isabel Dodge Sloane and J. H. Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad of National Guardsmen used clubs to keep the spectators in the infield under control. The spectators threw chairs at the guardsmen...
...Crimson needed only four hits to down the Bengal, while Lincoln was denied a no-hit, no-run performance through a scratch infield single by Dick Bell in the sixth and Ken Sandbach's long drive to left in the ninth...
...weakest team last week appeared to be the Cincinnati Reds. Their owner, Powel Crosley, spent the winter pouring $200,000 into minor-league treasuries for new players, of whom the most promising, First-Baseman John Mize, cost $50,000. But the team will start the season with an infield of four rookies, a weak pitching staff. Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston are likely to finish in the second division. Among the serious contenders, most experts think the Pittsburgh Pirates, with capable but unreliable pitchers, the Chicago Cubs, with dubious pitching and an experimental infield, are too weak to cause serious trouble...
After a day of inactivity, the Mitchellmen will have to take to the cage for their exercise, for the infield is very unlikely to be dried out by afternoon. The respite will give Bill Lincoln, the Crimson's one really dependable hurler, a further chance for rest. After the two games he worked in over the vacation trip, Coach Fred Mitchell decided not to let him start against the scarlet nine...