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Eager as Dodger fans, people began lining up, fortified with fish, rice and camp stools, outside the great, grey Korakuen Stadium 30 hours before the first game against the Yomiuri Giants, the all-Japan champions. The Americans won, 7 to 0 but the Japanese didn't seem to mind...
"Why condemn kids for one mistake in a lifetime?" said Adolph Rupp, Kentucky basketball coach, to Chicago's Quarterback Club last week. "Let's be more lenient toward them." Four days later the year's biggest basketball scandal exploded right in Coach Rupp's own backyard...
Now, just a month short of 37, with the bounce gone out of his legs, the zip out of his arm, and a bit of the bang out of his bat, Joe could still play the game-from memory-better than most outfielders. He obviously wanted to call it quits...
The game between Dunster and Winthrop was the most crucial thus far in the House league, with both teams being rated as possible champions. It was a hard-fought contest which at one point almost developed into a free-for-all.
In the lexicon of champions, fun and games are strictly separate. Big-time tennis is fun to watch, but not to play. Two little rectangles of grassy ground - one in a suburb of London, the other in a suburb of New York - have seen more championship and less fun than...