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Schindler got his chance this year when sore arms plagued the Harvard staff. In five appearances and 11 1/3 innings, he has allowed just one run on six hits. Even more impressive for a reliever, he has walked only one batter...
...times in his last five games. He had earned only eight bases on balls in his first 19 games...Jim DePalo leads the squad in free passes, with 27 in the team's 24 games. He has an incredible 491 on-base percentage. He might make a better leadoff batter than Tony Dicresare, who leads the team in strikeouts with 15. DePalo does have 17 RBI, but he isn't hitting for power this year, with only two doubles and three homers. DiCesare has almost as many RBI (14), one more double and one less home run. Depalo is better...
Baldauf, the team's leading batter with a 475 batting average, delivered the big blows with roundtrippers in both contests...
Tinker: "To work at something clumsily or imperfectly . . . to batter, maul." So says the Oxford English Dictionary. To their horror, the British publishers of the esteemed lexicon found last week that the definition applies to two of their own dictionaries. Editors in the Soviet Union have prepared special editions of the dictionaries that put political isms through a prism. Thus socialism, which is defined in the British editions as "a theory or policy of social organization . . ." in the Soviet version has become a "system which is replacing capitalism." And capitalism? Well, that is "an economic and social system based...
...hitting at a .257 clip, has a triple and home run to her credit. "Hanya take her rips, and is very fast," Wentzell said. After missing the first contest of the year because of an injury, the fleet-footed Bluestone has become Harvard's starting center fielder and leadoff batter...