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With its home opener washed out by rain two weeks ago, the cricket club will play its first game here this year at Smith Field (behind the Stadium) on Saturday afternoon. The match will be against Haverford, and the "opening bat" will start...
...batter, narrow-eyed and tightlipped, leaned in toward the plate, and crouched to make a smaller target of his stocky little frame. He wriggled, fidgeted with his cap, hitched up his belt, got his feet dug in, began waggling his bat. Just as the pitcher started his windup, he let down the bat, stepped out of the box and elaborately wiped an imaginary speck out of his eye. The pitcher waited, ball clutched in his throwing hand. With a swagger, the batter walked over to the rosin bag, picked it up, dusted his hands and wiped them on the seat...
Bill Chauncey, son of the captain of the 1928. Harvard baseball team, will hold the Yardling baseball team's chances in his right hand when the freshmen meet Governor Dummer at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon in South Byfield. Chauncey will pitch, and bat in the cleanup slot...
...spectators there must always, be oak trees for shade, and deck chairs of a low enough pitch fro a mid-game slumber. For the game itself there must be a perfect oval field, sown with the lushest English turf; and for the players, there must be a bat, preferably a finely-sprung precision instrument autographed by some of the legendary greats of cricket. Also there must be compete game uniform, including immaculate white sneakers, white flannels, white shirt, and cap--each player wearing a distinctively colored cap of his own choice...
...Been Saying . . ." Stengel paused to take a swig of beer, and went on: "I got this guy [Infielder Gil McDougald]. He may look funny at bat [average: .306], but he was the best rookie last year. He can play second or third. I don't know where I'll play him . . . I'm still experimenting ... I still got the best utility infielder [Billy Martin*] in the majors . . . And how about that guy [$65,000 bonus-boy Andy Carey] on third today? Got three hits, didn't he? . . . What's the matter with...