Word: quantico
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...Harvard baseball team won three of its four games on the spring trip to the South last week, and showed that it has a good chance for the Ivy League Pennant. The Varsityswept a two game series with Quantico, then split a double-header with the University of Richmond, winning the second game decisively, 5-0. Two games, with Georgetown and Maryland, were rained...
...first game at Quantico, on March 31, was a marathon in time and innings. It took Harvard four hours, fifteen minutes, and thirteen innings to edge the Marines, 5 to 4, under the lights. This was the first time anyone on the Crimson team had played at night in a Harvard uniform...
Under clear, late afternoon skies with the temperatures in the 70's, Harvard went ahead when left fielder Charlie Ravenel lined a fast ball over the left field wall, 291 feet away, in the second inning. Quantico came back with a run on another four-bagger, and the score remained tied until the seventh. Captain and catcher John Davis then poled a home run over the right field wall, and the Crimson got a third score the following inning. With Harvard ahead by two with one inning remaining, there seemed little doubt as to the outcome...
...Pate, 61, completes his commandant's tour at year's end, will probably step aside. Among the three or four three-star generals in line for the post: Nate Twining's Annapolis-educated brother Merrill, 56, brilliant tactician, now Commandant of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico...
...Alabama 17-8. Overrated Mississippi blew an 18-16 decision to punchless Tennessee. Holy Cross, rated tops in New England, took a fearsome 32-0 shellacking from Penn State, and Rutgers (with Bill Austin injured) had its hopes for its first unbeaten season in history smashed by the Quantico Marines...