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Sandy Macmillan at short, A1 Everts at second, and Brooks Heath, holding down the first sack, together with Butler, make up a green infield which is improving steadily. Macmillan, a left-handed batter, who hits long and hard when he connects, is at present holding the lead-off post in the batting order. Al Everts is batting for .381, and is the most improved member of the team. His tennis experience has given him a good eye for the ball. Heath played in the outfield at school, but handles his first-base job fairly well, although he lacks vital game...
...outfield is fairly strong, with Paul Quinn in left, "Fitz" Fitzgibbons in center, and hockey captain A1 Reeves in right. Quinn is not only a steady fielder and a .348 hitter, but a fair catcher and pitcher as well, and may possibly see service at both ends of the battery before the season winds...
...life, and Norman Mailer's "The Greatest Thing in the World," the lead story in the latest issue of the Advocate, strikes a crumbling blow at the magazine's much-discussed and usually exaggerated "ivory tower." Mr. Roosevelt's characterization "underprivileged" is a euphemism when applied to A1 Groot, the protagonist of the tale. Driven by the cruel necessity of keeping his wizened little body alive, this "small, old, wrinkled boy of eighteen or nineteen" pits his wits against a gang of "sucker players" bent on taking his last grimy dollar. The reality of the situation has the emotional conviction...
...here is the way they lined up yesterday. Charley Royer and Don McSweeney were third string forwards, Larry Hall was the center, and Bill Jackson and Jack Clarke were the guards. On the fourth it was Jim Jenkins and Howie Ezell at forward, Pete Macgowan at center, and A1 Reade and Ray Holtan in the back court. Red Scully and Buzz Downer were not scrimmaging yesterday but be long on the list...
...finalists are top-seeded A1 Everts, who continued his string of straight victories by defeating third-seeded Norm Dalrymple 6-3, 6-1, and unseeded Dart Harvey, who beat Orme Wilson in a prolonged three-set match...