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...Hines, reached first, but Gleason was caught between third and home. A double steal enabled McCaffrey to score the Crimson's fifth tally. On the shortstop's error Sargent was safe at first, and Hines scored from second when Neel threw wild to the first baseman. Loughlin, coming to bat for the second time, fanned to end the inning, with the score six to nothing...
...looked last week as though Soviet officials had taken quiet revenge. In still another drive to end sabotage in Soviet plants, the OGPU (secret police) arrested, then shot without public trial, 35 Russians. This the world took calmly, bat the next move was to arrest six British subjects, employes of Metropolitan-Vickers (electric contractors) and charge them with responsibility for a series of breakdowns in Russian electric plants...
...Mays, Jr. '32 and Charles Devens '32 have been awarded respectively the Barrett Wendell Junior Trophy Bat and the Wingate Memorial Cup, the Harvard Athletic Association announced last night. The Wendell Trophy, a mahogany bat, is given each year to the best offensive player on the Harvard nine. The award is mathematically figured out upon the number of times the winner reached first base, his number of stolen bases, total runs and sacrifice hits...
...tennis, which is a U. S. invention and played nowhere else except in Cuba) is a family game in England, British women have played more, now play better than Americans. Practicing against men has taught them that the most effective shots are not necessarily the swiftest, that the spindling bat should be controlled not with the forearm, like a tennis racquet, but with the wrist...
...singer, the late great Tenor Caruso. Tenors are naturally the heroes of most operas just as pitchers are the heroes of ball games. Baritones, like catchers, have to knock homeruns to be noticed and their chances at conspicuous parts come less often than a catcher's turn at bat. Tibbett's homerun in Falstaff earned him a $1,500 bonus from the Metropolitan management and opportunities which, stretching out into four distinct musical fields, combined to make him the most popularly known singer in the U. S. He was given increasingly important roles at the Metropolitan: Amonasro...