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...final game at the Polo Grounds-Yale 5, Princeton 1-gave "Mo" Berg, Tiger shortstop, difficult opportunities to which he rose so satisfactorily that Brooklyn National League scouts in the stands promptly offered him a Major League contract. Berg played his first game with Brooklyn last week, making one hit (a scratch, through the pitcher's box) and fielding perfectly...
...Mickelson, veteran Purdue shortstop, was the hardest hitter with .465. In eleven games his team averaged .313 to lead Michigan by 16 points for team batting honors...
With the score 15 to 3 in the last of the sixth the Crimson batters at last managed to get under way. A single, two doubles, a home run by Clark and two errors by Shapleigh, the Green shortstop, brought the score up to 15 to 9. Dartmouth and the University both brought in two more runs in the seventh. In the eighth the Crimson batters got their second Indian scalp by retiring Dunleavy who had replaced Lyon at the beginning of the inning, and scored another four runs. In the ninth, however, after the visitors had been retired...
...Most runs ever scored by a big league baseball player: Tyrus B. Cobb, Detroit American League team: 1,741. Cobb reached this mark on May 26, during his 18th big league season. (Hans Wagner, Shortstop Emeritus of the Pittsburgh Nationals, scored 1,740 runs in 20 years of play.) ¶ 50 yard swim, for women: Lillie Bowmer, Hawaii, 28 sec. ¶ Plunge, for women: Helen Moses, Hawaii...
...following inning that the Crimson crossed the plate for its only tally. Hill knocked a hot grounder to the shortstop, who seemed slightly rattled and threw over the first baseman's head, allowing the runner to reach second. A grounder by Hammond advanced him another base. Burgess then hit sharply to the second baseman, who tried to catch Hill at the plate. The throw was perfect, but the ball was twisted out of the catcher's hand, giving the University its only run and tieing the score. In the same inning another score was almost registered when Burgess made...