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...Eagles have three high-averaged power hitters in leadoff batter Len Ceglarski, first baseman Bob Manning, and catcher Mike Roarke, and one of the top pitchers of the east in Bill Scholz. Scholz a righthander, won six straight before losing to the camp LeJoune Marines and dropping a 7 to 5 game yesterday to Holy Cross ace Dick Bogdan. Eagle coach John Temple may be willing to start Scholz again after only two days' rest...
...story concerns John McGraw; the occasion was a tight ball game, with the Giants one run behind in the ninth inning and a runner on first. The next batter, Casey Stengel, was ordered to bunt so as to sacrifice the runner into a position to tie the score. Stengel tried to bunt one and fouled . . . The next pitch . . . looked so good he took a full swing at it, knocked it over the fence, and won the ball game. Imagine the injured feelings of Stengel (the hero of the battle), when upon rounding third base, he heard Manager McGraw angrily bellow...
Take one distant century-say the 16th-and take it seriously. Add one princely husband, admiring and dull; one bride, beautiful and devout; one young lover, handsome and ardent. Stir the ingredients in a batter of love-at-first-sight and courtly ceremony; cook over a slow fire of virtue, grief and remorse; then sprinkle with fragments of broken hearts. This basic recipe for romance or rubbish is served up cold in Madame de Lafayette's Princess of Cleves...
Husky coach Herb Gallagheer is not sure whether he will start his ace, southpaw senior Dick Sheldon, or his number two moundsman, sophomer right-hander John Costello, against the Crimson. If Sheldon is on the mound, McInnis will put Walt Greeley into right field in place of left-handed batter Ralph Robinson...
Northeastern has a comparatively weak-hitting club. Gallagher considers his shortstop and cleanup man, Vic Colo, his most dependable batter, but Colo's average has drifted below 300. Left-hander Andy Allan leads the team in hits...