University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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i.-!f' K i THE ILLIO OF 1929 DEAN SMILES AS ILLINI WIN 1-if. ,-,-sf . 1 f faq., , e 1 J ,is I 'lv W .K -.. . ' Paul Tie for the Championship LLINOIS opened the southern baseball trip and the season against Mississippi with Bud Stewart hurling the Illini to their first victory on a rain-soaked field. For five innings Stewart allowed the first Missis- sippi batters to reach the initial sack, but on all except one occasion he successfully held the following batters in checlc. Mississippi scored two runs in the third after Illinois had taken a two-run lead in the second. With the score tied in the ninth and two down, Finn and Paul singled. Finn scored when Dalbeclc's grounder was muffed by the shortstop, and Paul raced home when Dalbeclc drew a throw at second base. Against Mississippi A. 66 M. the following Monday the Illini had to be content with a 6 to 6 verdict after winning and losing the ball game three times during the struggle. Don Andrews started on the pitcher's mound and lasted eight innings. Sterling pitching by Desmond on the following day enabled Illinois to win its second victory of the trip. He allowed four scattered hits to the Mississippi A. 66 M. batters and was given perfect support in the field by his teammates in the 4 to 2 win. ' ' PAUL THROWS OUT BURBRIDGE AT FIRST - g. n .1 . X . 5 . I .V 1 1 ' A i ' V' , 3.99511 4 ' ' A , PAGE 250 ,lv F P I , x - 14. 8'-'IK ' I , Q 4 V Finn - HGH If QZQRI LQ.. li, , Xvul si .' M I W j f ' ' 3559?

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THE :mo or 1929 fs, Dnhlbeck I M 1 V I X I 9 F... MICHIGAN sg ILLINOIS o a , '1' y? Shaw Victories over Purdue and Iowa PENING the conference season against Purdue, after playing a 10 to 10 tie two days before with the Bradley Polytechnic boys, the Illini emerged victorious with a 4 to 3 verdict. Bud Stewart, pitching before a hostile crowd of Hoosiers, allowed the Boilermakers only six hits and after the second inning held them scoreless. Purdue scored twice in the first inning on two singles and a triple, and once in the second on a single and an error. Ernie Dorn drove in two runs in the fourth inning and Sweeney tied the score the following inning when he scored Hoffman on a hit. Dick Finn broke the tie and gave Illinois a one-run victory by slamming out a triple in the ninth with Norm Radford on base. I The best Iowa could do against Don Andrews in the second conference encounter for Illinois was to get four singles and one run. Three one- base blows were hunched in the seventh for the small end of a 6-1 score. Pinlcey Bryden scored two runs for the Illini in the third by bagging a double with the bases full, and Earl Paul's triple a moment later with two on, scored another pair. Two more runs later seeped across the plate. p ,av f -I ,gg X A .,,1 HOFFMAN SINGLES TO CENTER Andrews f.2-VBA PAGE 252