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Immediately upon the completion of the 1920 basketball season Coach Murray issued the first for baseball practice. The ididates were ordered to report in the "gym." and about thirty 1921 season m hand for the preliminary work. With Capt. Hudson and "Eke" Turner, varsity pitchers of the year before, and Joe Murphy, a former varsity backstop, the battery positions seemed to be pretty well taken care of. Nordquist, the crack varsity shortstop of the 1919 team. was available as was Greenhalgh. a veteran of pre-war days, and Lucey, Casey, Rhodes, and Whitaker of the 1919 team. Johnson and Coleman, both Freshmen. soon displayed a fine brand of ball which won for them permanent p>ositions on the varsity. The first game of thi with Brown at Andrews Field and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the B; unonians, the Rhode Island pitchers being unable to find the plate, and the Bi own batsmen slamming everything which came across. The game with Tufts e nded in a 3-0 victory for the latter team. Loose fielding was mainly responsible fi r the runs gained by Tufts. The game with M. A. C. 1 ed out to be a good old slugging contest with the M. A. C. hurlers displaying slightly better form than the Rhode Islanders. None of the pitche seemed to be able to find the plate, and ( ;rything looked good to the hard-hitting batters on both teams. Worcester Tech was encountered next, and with Capt. Hudson in the box and every man on the team playing air-tight ball, the team emerged a 2-1 victor over our ancient rivals. The following week the team journeyed to Vermont and took the Norwich University team into camp. "Eke" Turner had a big day in the box and succeeded in shutting out the Vermonters without a score, while his team-mates pilled up four runs. The game with Vermont was called on account of rain in the fourth inning with the Green-Mountain Boys holding the advantage ~
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Boston University was obliged to accept a 3-0 whitewashing at the hands of Capt. Hudson, and the following week Connecticut was defeated 8-5 with Turner in the box. The entire Rhode Island team seemed to have its eye on the ball, and the Connecticut hurlers ail looked alike. The last two games of the season ended in defeats for the Rhode Island team, one at the hands of Brown and the other at the hands of Holy Cross. The latter team probably presented as strong a line-up as is ever seen in college baseball. The 1920 season proved to be a fairly successful one even though defeated twice by Brown and once by Holy Cross. The defeats suffered at the hands of Brown. Tufls. and M. A. C, were soon followed by four straight victories, two of them being shut-outs, and these helped greatly to soothe the sting of previous
defeats. 1941