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Carlson, captain of football this year and baseball last season, is the leading slugger of the Boston team. W. Murphy, football captain-elect, Captain Sessler, and Higginbotham, a three year veteran, are other headliners. MacDonald, who pitched the last half of the 1924 game, is scheduled to start in the box today...
Died. Fred Hillerich, 90, pioneer baseball bat manufacturer, maker of the famed "Louisville Slugger" used by many major league players; at Louisville, Ky., from complications following a fractured...
Siki showed nothing to warrant the serious attention that has been accorded his abilities. He is a wild, awkward slugger. When his blows do land, they lack abrupt decision. Ills chief merit is ceaseless courage...
...good many years ago there was a baseball game between Minneapolis and the National League, a close and fiercely fought game. With the score four to three in the last inning and the bases full, a valiant slugger sidled to the plate to save the fair name of his team. Whether or not the umpire was crosseyed, he called the first two pitches strikes. The crowd howled for umpire blood, but the batter only entrenched himself more deeply and juggled his bat into a better position. Then came the next ball: a mighty swing, and Casey...
...rated the super-mounder of the South. He has been directly responsible for all of his team's wins this year; he was in the box when Georgia University was held to a tie, he downed Auburn College, and later overcame Georgia Tech. He is also a heavy slugger, but in this he is not unaided, for his team-mates, Captain Hope, Carlyle, center field, Simms, right fielder, and Thaxton, second baseman, are all batsmen who are fond of having the last word. Thaxton is already famous for having landed for two home runs and a triple in the first...