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...principle, handball dates from the first time that a boy bounced a ball against a wall. Most authorities credit Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly...
Uneven pitching was characteristic of both teams. While Brandeis tightened up on giving away hits in the second half of the game, it yielded seven walks in the last three innings. On the other hand Harvard's Ed Wadsworth began to lose control towards the end of the game, and although he walked only five, he let the count go up to 3-2 for almost every batter in the last three innings, and got his four strikeouts early...
Perhaps the hero of the game was Ed Wadsworth who managed to keep going despite a sore finger that almost made his pitching go out of control. Nevertheless, he allowed only five hits in the whole game and kept Walker, Brandeis' strongest hitter, to just two hits. Both teams tried to get on base by bunting, but most of the efforts resulted in fouls or outs, except for Wadsworth's squeeze which brought in the varsity's last...
Undefeated in regular season play, the varsity lacrosse team will face its first Ivy League competition against Cornell at Ithaca this afternoon. Last season, the Big Red dealt a crushing blow to the Crimson's Ivy League hopes when they toppled the varsity 7 to 1 in a game Coach Bruce Munro called "one of the sloppiest I have ever seen...
Charlie Devens, Dick Parks, and Tim Morgan will probably start at midfield, while Lanny Keyes, Ed Tarlov, and Bronnie Thayer will open the game at defense. Guarding the nets will be Chris Stone...