Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Facing a good pitcher who restricted them to two hits and no runs last year, the varsity was not able to muster a rousing offense in yesterday's game. But so strong was the pitching of Byron Johnson that a very limited Crimson attack (four singles in all) was sufficient for victory...
Playing first doubles, Weld and Bowditch had a tight match with Brechner and Anderson, winning by 6-4, 3-6, 8-6. Behind 1-3 in the deciding set, the Crimson pair won three straight games and, with both their powerful services clicking beautifully, held on to break Brechner's service in the fourteenth game for the match...
Nevertheless, honks of protest went up all over West Germany. Not only is Knechtsand a wild goose sanctuary near the fishing and resort town of Cuxhaven; it is also regularly visited by a game warden and a band of volunteer bird lovers, aged 10 to 68, who are helping build up the dunes to save the sandbar from the gnawing surf. Had they been on Knechtsand that day, they might have been killed or wounded...
Vada Pinson, 20, folded last year after only three weeks with Cincinnati, and was shipped off to Seattle. This season the well-built left-handed batter is hitting a snappy .357. Pinson blames his failure last year on a bases-loaded homer he socked in Pittsburgh in the second game of the season. "I'd never hit one with three on before," he explains, "and I started looking for the chance to do it again. I'm not that way any more. All I'm trying to do this year is get on base...
...built in plants constructed with U.S. economic aid-are pressing U.S. products hard in markets all around the world. While exports of U.S. manufactured goods were dropping 10% last year, Italian trade with Venezuela rose 34%, with Egypt 81%, with Indonesia 142%. Any customers the Italians overlooked were fair game for the busy West Germans. Not long ago U.S. manufacturers worried about German bicycles and other consumer goods. Today the Germans are supplying major elements of a refinery in Argentina, providing the pipes for a Venezuelan irrigation project, and installing a pipeline in Chile...