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...first bombs were dropped and the first shots were fired last week in the Battle of the Middle East. Their sound was not great; it was a preliminary noise, like the crack of fungo bat against a baseball in warming-up time. But it was a business-like noise, a major-league, worldseries noise. There could no longer be any question where a new theater of war would...
...Batting stars of the game were Low Averbach and John Heath of the blue-socks. Averbach connected for a triple and a single for his six trips, and Heath got three singles for five times up. He, incidentally, reached base every time he was at bat, three times on hits, once on a fielder's choice, and once on an error. Every Yale batter got at least...
However, in the contest with the Indians last Wednesday, both the slugging and the fielding had improved to a surprising degree. Three scintillating double-plays were pulled off by the infielders, and at bat the team chalked up ten good wallops, so there is hope that the Crimson has finally broken the jinx, and is on the upgrade. If Waldstein continues in his present form, and if the fielding and batting up-swing continues, the home forces have an excellent chance of adding another tiger-pelt to the one they have already snagged this season...
...individual competitions, the pace setters are: For the Charles H. Blair bat (for highest individual batting average), Dartmouth's Captain John Orr, Jr. leads the field with eight safe hits in 12 times up for .667. Yale's Howie Kaye continued his slugging against Cornell, getting two for three and bringing his average to .615. In third place is Pennsylvania's Bernard Kuczynski with 10 for 19 and a .526 average. For the Princeton A. A. cup (for individual base stealing), Captain Orr of Dartmouth and Reagan of Pennsylvania are tied with four steals each...
...result of George Albion's four hits for as many times at bat, the Crimson second Freshmen swamped the Browne and Nichols School nine by a score of 15 to 2. Albon, who pitched for the Yardlings, hurled a fine ball game, allowing only three hits...