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...University team at this time is in a critical stage of its development. It is just recovering its stride after injuries and the shake-up in coaches. The hitting as a whole has been erratic, with, however, the encouraging feature of a marked ability to hit in the pinches. The batting order seems to have reached its final shape, but the order in the field is not so definite. Beal is filling the hole at third satisfactorily, but the weakness at short may mean some important shift...
...team batting average of .219 is not very encouraging, but the batsmen are now regaining their stride. The total of 37 stolen bases speaks well for the speed of the team...
...game opened with a rush by the University which gave it the lead. The Boston players soon struck their stride, however, and scored two goals, the first half ending...
...Princeton at the Arena last Saturday night by the score of 5 to 1, in a fairly slow game, made conspicuous by the excellent work of Phillips and Wylde. For the first few minutes of play Phillips did not get warmed up, but when he finally struck his accustomed stride he was in part responsible for four of the five scores made by the University. Princeton tried an experiment by shifting Peacock to centre and at first this seemed to strengthen the team, but Cowan, who had gone to point, lacked Peacock's ability at defensive play and his speed...
Captain Claflin and Morgan played their usual brilliant game and Wylde showed up well at goal. The forward line, when it finally got into its stride did very good work. W. Humphreys and Peacock played the strongest game for Princeton...