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...first match of the season last Saturday at Soldiers Field, the Harvard Cricket Club soundly defeated the West Indies Cricket Club of Greater Boston. The Crimson team piled up 137 runs for the loss of only three wickets declared, while the West Indies team compiled only 58 runs for the loss of all ten of their wickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Overwhelms Boston Club In Cricket Match at Soldiers Field | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

...Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop, Andre Rodgers, 24, a onetime Bahamas cricket player, seems finally to have solved big-league pitching, was leading the team in batting average (.414), as the Giants broke camp at week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Up & Coming | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...sophomore slump, but the chances are he will turn into the loop's top first baseman. Daryl Spencer and Jim Davenport are both superlative fielders, but both hit .256 last year. The success of the infield will depend on the performance of Andre Rodgers at shortstop, a reformed cricket player who tore the PCL apart last year with a .354 average...

Author: By Tampa JIM Benkard, | Title: National League: Pittsburgh Picked To End Long Era of Dismal Finishes | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...Barnard sleepers were late indeed--so late that they played the first quarter with only five--not the normal six--members. Despite their handicap, they held the score to a 2-2 tie until the middle of the second quarter. By that time the Cabot attack, led by confident Cricket Fisher, had finally gotten off the floor to pick up 14 of its 18 points in the next two periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot Six Triumphs In 'Cliffe Basketball | 3/18/1959 | See Source »

Last week Peggy, playing in her first tournament after the birth of a daughter last year, got to the quarter finals of the National Singles championships at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa. before bowing out. But Betty was at the top of her driving game, methodically rolled into the finals, disposed of Britain's Mrs. Sheila Speight Mclntosh to win her fourth straight title-the tenth national championship for the House of Howe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Howes & Squash | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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