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...your whiplash delivery and your arms and legs flailing, you look like a man fighting his way out of a plastic bag. What's more, some of the players around the National League claim you're a "headhunter" because you've led the league in hit batsmen five times. And the other night when you blanked the San Francisco Giants 3-0, their manager, Herman Franks, insisted you were throwing a "Vaseline ball"-doctoring it with grease to make it jump around. True...
...Crimson batsmen took up where they left off Monday--when they battered the highly-touted Dartmouth squad...
Even in yesterday's 9-1 romp over hapless Brandeis, few Harvard batsmen fattened their averages. The 13 bases on balls given up by Brandeis pitching made the game an easy walkaway...
...loss demonstrates the fluctuations of which Harvard's batsmen are capable. On Saturday they scored 11 runs against/Springfield, but yesterday they managed only three hits. Only Jeff Grate performed well at the plate as he walked twice and hit two singles in five times at bat. Coupled/with the loss to B.U., the defeat yesterday all but eliminates the Crimson from repeating as the Greater Boston League champions...
...loss was significant for two reasons. It demonstrated that Peters, the pride of last year's pitching staff, has not fully recovered from a bout of mononucleosis. And it pointed out the defensive weaknesses that may haunt coach Norm Shepard all season. Harvard's batsmen will have to hit better than they did yesterday to win back the runs they give away on the field...