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With ten games (and seven victories) behind them, the Crimson can boast some at batting averages of its own. Sophomore shortstop Jeff Grate leads the team at .457, followed by Jim Tobin at .352. Another sophomore, first baseman Bob Welz, is hitting .342. Dan Hootstein, the Crimson's balding cleanup hitter, is coming on strong after a slow start. His average is up to .273, he leads the team with 12 RBI's, and he slugged a long home run against Navy...
...varsity unloaded the heavy ammunition in the ninth. After Houston flied out, the next four batters--aided by defensive lapses in the field--stroked out four consecutive singles. Then Jeff Grate walked, and cleanup hitter Hootstein belted a tremendous double to center which cleared the bases. Welz singled in Hootstein and the Crimson was home free...
Welz, a left-handed swinger as is Grate, is being moved up to the cleanup spot for today's game, ahead of slow-starting Dan Hootstein. The junior right fielder, who led the team with a .325 average last season, hit a disappointing .158 in the opening games...
...steps "which will lead to our ultimate victory." The general's emphasis was on doing things gradually, and his plea was primarily directed toward Djakarta's restive students, who would have liked to see a bigger shake-up and who had recently begun clamoring for a cleanup of Parliament, for "social justice" and for elections...
...hour. In western Pennsylvania, General Laborers Local 1058 says it will be cleaned out of common laborers for construction jobs at $3.71 an hour by June. Inland Steel has 600 openings for unskilled workers, has had to hire 150 college students just to fill vacancies in its weekend cleanup gangs...