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...first the camera kept its eye close up, on pitcher & batter, and followed the runner to first. It has since learned that one of television's big thrills is watching Outfielder Joe DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without looking back spurt to the right spot, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. The unexpected makes some of television's brightest moments: a rainstorm breaks, and the camera shows ground keepers covering the pitcher's box with canvas, then sweeps across the bleachers, singling out soaked...
...spot. Baseball, football, hockey, horse racing and basketball are tougher problems. Too frequently, watchers are dragged through eye-straining "pans" as the camera races to catch up with the action. Baseball telecasts, says the show business magazine Variety, "are right back where radio was when a batter would rattle a hit off the fence for two bases and Ted Husing would call it a 'Texas Leaguer...
...Griffin, Ga., last week, a lanky high-school senior struck out his 18th batter in seven innings, and clinched the ballgame, 6-4. Pitcher Hugh Frank Radcliffe, 19, was pitching the kind of ball that had already brought major-league scouts to his doorstep. It was his fourth victory in four starts, and boosted his current season's record total to a sizzling 86 strike-outs in 33⅓ innings (an average of 2.6 strike-outs an inning). A week earlier he struck out 28 men in nine innings (the catcher couldn't handle Radcliffe's fast...
...Given a genuinely funny sketch-such as Moss Hart's about a superstitious maid who unnerves an actress on opening night and Bea is colossal. Given a reasonable chance to shine-as in two or three other numbers-and she shines. But forced, as she often is, to batter her way through a sketch, even Bea gets bruised...
...Crimson has much tough cat gut to out-batter during the next three weeks. No one is particularly worried about Brown this afternoon, but Cornell this Saturday poses a bigger problem. The veteran-studded Cayugans boast national reputations in their top men and have depth and prowess in their reserves. Along with Yale and Princeton who usher out the season in the middle of May, they will have history and the guesses of ouija specialists on their side when they cock their racquets for the Crimson, and it is difficult to tell whether the team's and Barnaby's optimism...