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When Frank McNutt, yesterday's starting pitcher for Kirkland House, planted his foot on the rubber and twirled the first ball towards an Adams House batter, little did he realize that he was to go down in inter-House baseball history for pitching a no-hit game...
Neither could the Yankee batters. The background was an orange canvas curtain draped over the wire fence in centerfield (to spoil a free view for passers-by). The ball came out of that background and was on top of the batter before he knew it. By the seventh inning, not a Yankee had collected a hit. Murry's Cardinal teammates began to treat him just as if he were pitching a no-hitter in the regular season -when it counted...
COLLEGE PARK, March 30--Harvard and Maryland battled to a 3 to 3, 13-inning tie today at Byrd Stadium. The Crimson had men on first and third with one out in the eleventh, but the next batter, attempting to squeeze in the run, popped to the pitcher, who doubled the runner off third...
Housing should be speeded up by a $1 billion-a-year federal program, in large metropolitan centers, starting with those which agree to help batter down archaic building codes and labor featherbedding...
Actually, Jackie at bat is most dangerous when the odds are against him. When the count gets to two strikes, as he explains it: "Then I begin to crowd the plate a little." Says Branch Rickey: "He is the best batter in the game with two strikes on him." Pitchers capitalize on his hasty swing by feeding him slow stuff. "I just can't hit those nuthin' pitches," Jackie complains. Because he is the best bunter in the game, the Dodgers "cut him loose" at the plate (i.e., let him decide for himself whether to take...