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There was no joy on Coogan's Bluff. The fumbling New York Mets, starting their first season in the newly expanded National League, lost their first nine games-tying a National League record for frustration. The $2,500,000 team hit a dismal .225. was better at bat than in the field. For the first time in his illustrious career, crusty Casey Stengel, 71, seemed unable to do anything right. "I start my best pitcher," he complained, "and what happens? Right away they get five runs off him." Somebody told Stengel that a photographer had been assigned to cover...
...this blot, Dr. Holtzman sees a horned bat's face; "Baboons at play" is equally acceptable as a normal response. But such answers as "Reminds me of the Black Plague" are rated neurotic. Explains Holtzman: "This is an abstract association . . . an anxiety response." At the schizophrenic end of the scale the psychologist puts: "A woman's behind-pregnant, flying, you know." Most subjects agree with Holtzman: this blot reminds them of an enraged executive listening to two telephones. The response "Mud smeared on a church window" is moderately but definitely neurotic, says Holtzman, because it "shows strong hostility...
...already been adopted in many Veterans Administration hospitals. And because its inkblots cut across cultural and language barriers, the H.I.T. manual is already being translated into Polish and Spanish. A bat's head is always a bat's head-at least wherever there are bats...
Although this will be the Crimson's first appearance in Cambridge, it is not their first home game. BU is actually the host team and will bat in the latter part of the inning. Due to field constructions, BU is playing all its games on alien fields this year. This will be its first Greater Boston League game of the season...
...Crimson's infield allowed only one error and was as strong at bat as in the field. Third baseman Mike Drummey, the only player to go hitless against Springfield Wednesday, got three base hits in three official trips to the plate. Second baseman Terry Bartolet and shortstop Dave Morse each collected two safeties...