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Soon came more boarding parties, heavily armed. Fierce fights broke out as the immigrants refused to permit the British Navy to take over. While passengers clawed and pummeled the sailors, the ship zigzagged through converging Navy craft. Finally the Arlosoroff scraped aground, just 100 yards off Bat Galim, Haifa's seashore suburb. Behind the barbed wire on the beach, hundreds of Jews waved handkerchiefs at the immigrants, cheered as a dozen leaped overboard and struggled ashore-to certain capture. On the ship the fight continued...
...ball caught on the fly is out. If he thinks he can make it, he runs for the other wicket (66 feet away) and a teammate, ready at the other wicket, trades places. Every time they change places successfully, they have scored a run. A man stays at bat until he has been bowled, caught out, run out or ruled "l.b.w."* If he is still in when his side has been retired, (i.e., when ten men are out) he "carries his bat...
...G.I.s play baseball during the war, generally regarded it as a sissy game, like the one played by little girls & boys and called Rounders. When Babe Ruth tried his hand at cricket in a visit to England in 1935, he swatted the ball so hard that he broke the bat. He glowed: "I wish they would let me use a bat as wide as this in baseball...
...before wicket: when the umpire rules that the batter's leg - -and not his bat - kept the ball from hitting the wicket...
...Cleveland, a landlord named Arthur Clark hit on a novel way of evicting tenants who refused to pay more than OPA rents. He hired a gang of thugs, equipped them with pistols, blackjacks, clubs and a baseball bat, sicked them on his tenants. One tenant died of a cracked skull. Last week Clark and one thug were convicted of second-degree murder, sentenced to life imprisonment...