Boston University School of Management - Syllabus Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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p SYLLABUS 1923 L ,g i it JUST BEFORE THE CLAMBAKE, MOTHER! on SUMMER SCHOOL FACULTY 42-STUDENTS o Story of the game, inning by inning and play by play, written six months after the efvrnt by an 1u1przfju1lizr1'1l ob.s'w'11er who r1'm1f111b1'rs awry detail as plainly as if tho great contest ufrre to take place tomorrow. Prof. Coggin pitches niarforlously --Al Woo1lb11:'y steals honm with tliree mm out--Prof. Babb drops bowl of stewozl corn to lllllkl' triple play--Dean Lord assaults the Umpire-Sidehill Badger bites flddio lllaloof bool' of second base - Thrill follows thrill. By PROFESSOR CHAS E. BELLATTY, lllonagor of the Faculty Plfhirlwifzds Lamoine Point, long famous as the setting of Herne's great State of Maine drama, Shore Acres, established new claims to immortality last summer when it became the spot on which occurred the first of many annual defeats of the all-student baseball team by the faculty nine of the Ellsworth Summer Session. Though seriously handicapped by the refusal of the student team to face Dean Lord, the first string pitcher of the faculty nine, and almost as much by the shameless partisanship of the oneway umpire, the faculty team easily demonstrated the superiority of brain over brawn-of wisdom over boneheaded inexperience. Professor Goggin, substitute pitcher for the faculty, was in his old-time Tuftonian form. His curves broke perfectly. His moist ball had the jump of a Union River bullfrog. The velocity of his speed ball reminded the spectators of the lightning-like flash of lVlr. Harry Eat-em-up Stumcke as he fights his way to a free ride from ball park to chow hall. WINGATE SUBS FOR HASCALL Nevertheless, Professor Goggin's reign was brief. Behind the bat as substitute for Mr. Lee C. Hascall, the regular backstop of the faculty, was Wingate, a volunteer from thc Hancock Point second team. Earlier in the week, when motoring home from what he declared to have been a strictly formal clambake at one of the suburbs of Otter Creek, Wingate had suddenly and simultaneously discovered a hitherto un- known sharp curve in the highway, a new way to cross a wet ditch without muddying the wheels of a coupe and a quiet place to sleep in the bosom of a barberry hedge. When, therefore, the first two students who faced Professor Goggin had struck out on six pitched balls the combination of speed and twists completely unnerved the plucky Wingate. As the tenth successive curve spatted into his mitt he threw ball, mitt, and mask high into the air, turned three catapulting cartwheels and, descending, draped his un- conscious form about the stalwart neck and shoulders of Charlie Pearson, Chief of the Ellsworth police, as limp and languid as one of Randall's unjacketed eels. Thanks, however, to the versatility of first baseman Sullivan, who relieved Professor Goggin and whose fast straight ball created no hallucinations in Wingate's overwrought mind, the faculty team retained its mastery of the situation. 280

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S' l5 ' lEWi'f:'i'l' .f. SUMMER SCHOOL ' B B' ?i'il, i, -A .A, - Summer School Baseball Team Back row: Romanrs, MCINTYRli, LORD, SULLIVAN, Woopuuav, BELLATTY Front row: LAv1cy, Donmw, Srumcxe, HORRIOAN CMgr.J, TRAINOR, GOULD, MCCORRY Seated: DONAHUE, HERRIN fCapt.D Baseball, as in 1920, was one of the great points of interest at the Summer School. Although the outlook was not very bright because of the loss of Hersey, Toland, McCormack, Flynn, Lantz and McDonald, a fast nine was developed with Frank Horrigan handling the managership reins. Witli a nucleus of Herrin, McCorry, Stumcke, Trainor and Henderson and the addition of Red Gould, Spike Doheny, Pat Donohue, Eddie Lord, Archie Macliityre and Jake Roberts, a very formidable aggregation was organized. Twelve games were played, of which we won five, lost six, and tied one, as follows: B.U.S.S. B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S B.U.S.S SEAL HARBOR BANGOR K. OF C BAR HARBOR EASTERN A.A. OLD TOWN A.L. U. OF M.S.S. BAR HARBOR CASTINE FRANKLIN ELLSWORTH A.A. ELLSWORTH A.A. II BANGOR K. OF C. 3 279 . I i

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'F SUMMER SCHOOL I CARBERG WAS NEVER BETTER At the bat the winning team was a whirlwind. Ten men faced student pitcher Carberg in the first inning, and I4 hit safely in the second. And this happened in the face of the fact that Carberg had everything in the world in the way of speed, control and confidence. As Joe Stultz would say, in the rough and ready language of the B.U. News, Carberg was going good l In order to save the lives of the student outfielders and to reduce the terrific over- head expense because of knocking high flies into Frenchman's Bay and Trenton Woods and losing baseballs at 552 each the faculty ceased batting in the third inning and retired with only one out. That man had been hit by a batted ball. Student after student walked up to the plate and struck out or popped weakly to the stone-wall infield of the Faculty. PROFESSOR BABB A SECOND SPEAKER ln center field stood Prof. Hugh W. Babb, who as a ground coverer is second, perhaps, only to lllr. Tristram Speaker of the Pittsburg Wliite Sox. Prof. Babb soon felt that he would have never a chance for a putout. He improved his time by picking and eating a quart or two of blueberries, which, spiced with pennyroyal, sorrel, high- land cranberries and a few succulent plantain leaves, kept his Down East appetite in check until the clams were ready. NO FLIES-PLENTY OF JUMPERS Having nothing to do in left field in the fly-catching line the writer devoted his energies to catching grasshoppers. These locusts abound in the wild sections of Maine and may be taken alive when once the hunter acquires the knack of attacking from the flank of the creature with one hand and on the bias line of its position with the other. fl'rof. Whitehead will soon bring out a book on How to Make Money Catching Grasshoppersf' with an introductory chapter by Dr. Chamberlin on The Psychology of the Preapproachf' 34.98 a copy at the college supply shops.-Ad-v.j The writer hastens to say to Dean Lord or to any student of Personal Efficiency that with the 169 green grasshoppers and two extra hindlegs captured in left field as the game progressed, a fishing companion of the following week end, lVIr. Royal K. Hayes, succeeded in landing, practically unaided, two orange-tawny sunfish, only slightly under the legal limit for length, a very rare variety of game fish known as a yellow perch, and a piebald hornpout that was both large and nervous. HAYES MEETS VIC GREENE'S COUSIN It is only fair to say, however, that the expression on the features of the tempera- mental bullhead to which reference has been made so reminded Hayes of Vic Greene emerging from a hard-earned nap in Capital and Labor, that Royal K. pushed the reptile back into Branch Pond and swore off on fishing for the summer. 281