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Yale's leadoff batter hit a routine grounder, but Jim Tobin's had throw to first opened the floodgates. Three consecutive singles, a walk, a squeeze bunt, and finally a back-breaking two-run single by the number eight Eli hitter produced five Yale runs...
Leading the Eli hitters are sophomore third baseman Ed Goldstone, captain Bob Bartlett, and left fielder Jack Walsh, better known for his hockey playing. But the batter who will probably be hardest to get out is right fielder Jud Devine, who led the Elis last spring and is riding a hot streak that includes a 4-for-5 showing at Columbia...
...eighth inning, Navy broke a 3-3 with the deciding runs, but, they did the trick without the benefit of a single hit. Harvard starter Bob Lincoln walked the first man he faced, will pitched him to second, and then walked the next batter. Coach Norm Shepard, who had Larry Melfa warming up for much of the chilly afternoon, pulled Lincoln and called for the sidearming lefthander...
Much of the problem may be that a suicidal lady who phones for help obviously intends to be saved, and suspense becomes a matter of mechanics. While the clock ticks away, while rescuers all around town carefully prolong the agony and news photographers batter at his door, Poitier behaves precisely like an Oscar-winning actor who has to work up an hour or more of excitement with a hot line as his only prop and such depressing pep talk as "You're something all your own, just as I am." Bancroft retaliates by spelling out her problem in flashbacks...
Sandy Koufax's curve ball was low and inside. Juan Marichal, 27, ace pitcher (record: 19-9) of the San Francisco Giants, stood in the batter's box and watched it go by. Behind him, Los Angeles Dodger Catcher John Roseboro wound up, took aim and rifled the return throw right past the batter's ear. Marichal spun around. "Why do you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He started straight for Marichal, and in front of 42,807 horrified-or delighted, as the case may be-fans, Marichal swung...