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...shallow attempt to manufacture suspense, sports scribes have billed this afternoon's run in Franklin Park as a tense two-team duel between the Crimson and defending champion Northeastern. But even though the Huskies have won seven of seven meets so far this year, it's unlikely that they can upset McCurdy's charges...
...Dueling Rommel. Patton saw his life as one long joust with the world. In peacetime, he trained himself for war as a medieval knight training for battle. He was a ferocious competitor in the pentathlon, in which he finished fifth in the 1912 Olympics, and polo, in which he was a seven-goal player. In his last year at West Point, he thrust his head into the line of fire during a sharpshooting exercise. "I just wanted to see how afraid I'd be," he explained, "and to train myself not to be." When war came, Patton...
...opening scene is a country house where Edward, an essayist, and Flora, his wife, are having breakfast. After desultory chatter about flowers and a duel with a wasp, their attention turns to an old matchseller standing by the back gate. The man disturbs Edward, but Flora finds him faintly attractive. Both are alternately fascinated and repelled by him. Edward interrogates him, insults him, soliloquizes on youthful glories now defunct. Flora too interviews him, trying to find out why she feels drawn to him. Gradually it becomes evident that the couple knows the old man intimately, either in memory...
...Horns. The Cards certainly did try. After 8½ innings, the two teams were locked in a tight, 1-1 pitching duel. Then Cardinal Starter Curt Simmons gave way to Reliefer Barney Schultz, an ancient knuckleballer who had knocked around 19 teams in 21 years. Up came Mickey Mantle, whose second error of the Series had set up the lone St. Louis run. "I was wearing the horns," said Mantle afterward. "I had to do something." Schultz threw-a knuckle ball that didn't quite knuckle. Mantle swung-and hammered a drive that was still climbing when it bounced...
Curt Simmons will duel Jim Bouton in St. Louis today as the Cardinals try to wrap up the World Series in six games...