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Though it was a sticky wicket, rain in Canberra did nothing to diminish a shining performance by Australian Prime Minister John Gorton. Leading his parliamentary cricket team to a hard-won 121-119 victory over the capital press eleven, the P.M. hit seven runs and bowled out one press batter with a style characterized by a newsman as "unpredictable and suspect...
...starters in the field, Bill Kelly and Pete Bernhard, will also see action on the mound. In eight innings this spring, Kelly has allowed only one hit. He is Park's ideal pitcher: "He throws strikes. He makes the batter swing...
...southpaw, Nickens relies on control rather than speed. He tries to confuse the batter with curves and changes of speed rather than fasthails. Nickens led the team with 40 strikeouts in 49 innings last season...
David Hynes's four goals paced the freshman hockey team to a 6-1 exhibition win over Batter Skolan of. Skelleftea. Sweden, yesterday at Watson Rink...
...home runs. Infielder Al Weis, a man who had never harmed anyone in his life, tied the last game with a home run. And when the Mets could not hit, they found other, more devious ways of arriving at first base. Not even the umpire, for instance, knew that Batter Cleon Jones had been hit on the foot by a pitch -until Manager Gilbert Hodges produced the ball with shoe blacking on it. Some said that Hodges had carried that smudged ball in his pocket all season long, waiting for the wonderful moment when it would be needed...