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...cleanest candidate with a chance of winning the election, though a slight one, is Ronald Carey, president of a United Parcel Service local in Queens, N.Y. Carey is widely regarded as a reformer running with a small power base and a shoestring campaign chest of $300,000. "The others have access to all the Teamster resources," he gripes. "They could raise $1 million in one day if they needed to. They think they're in a corporate country club...
Critics, however, insist that Carey stood by while his own local was infiltrated by the Mob. His secretary-treasurer, John Long, was convicted in 1988 for embezzlement (the conviction was reversed on procedural grounds). Carey says he did nothing wrong, but the scandal has raised questions about his ability to monitor underlings. Last month a major reform group, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, was censured for making illegal contributions to Carey's campaign...
That end came in the bottom of the eleventh inning of the night cap, when Dartmouth second baseman Tim Carey sent a Pete Rau offering into center field, scoring Cam McKennitt and Peter Hoffman, and giving the Big Green a 4-3 come-from-behind victory...
Designated hitter Peter Hoffman, who belted a solo home run in the fourth inning to give Dartmouth a 1-0 lead, then singled to left. That set the stage for Carey's two-run, game-winning single...
...Carey's hit capped what had turned into a very long afternoon for the Crimson. Harvard, which entered Saturday's games with an unprecedented .360 team batting average, was able to muster only one run off Dartmouth hurler Bob Bennett in the opener. That run, a long home run by Mike Giardi to lead off the second inning, was almost enough, thanks to the outstanding pitching of junior Sean Johnston...