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Picked by sportswriters to finish no better than sixth, Hutchinson's Reds are a genuine baseball miracle: an odd assortment of discarded has-beens and untested maybes who suddenly jelled into the only consistent team in the fiercely competitive National League. Third Baseman Gene Freese, traded away by four teams in three years, hit 26 homers for the Reds. Reserve Outfielder Jerry Lynch, woefully weak on defense, batted over .400 as a pinch hitter. Catcher Darrell Johnson, a Yankee castoff, hit a lusty .333. First Baseman Gordy Coleman, obtained from Cleveland, found Cincinnati's bandbox Crosley Field...
Judging from last week's results, it looks like Ivy league will finish something like this: Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale, Penn, Princeton, and Brown. That's about the pre-season experts picked, with the exception of Columbia, which sat much lower as a "dark horse...
Sailing in the Raven class, the Crimson was hurt by poor starts in the first and last races. The second place finish, however, guarantees Harvard a place in the final competition later this fall...
Harvard and Lehigh? "I only wish I knew how it will finish," Yovicsin said yesterday. "I'd sleep better...
...absorbed with writing to need the Village, and he began a series of withdrawals. The first took him to a cottage 24 miles away, in Tarrytown. Friends apparently found his address, because he hid out in a sweatbox near the Third Avenue el for his three-week push to finish Catcher. He decided to move again, and in one of the notable failures of Zen archery, hit on Westport. The artsy-ginsy exurb was no place for Salinger. "A writer's worst enemy is another writer," he remarked ungraciously and accurately somewhat later...