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Brown came within one pitch of his materpiece going 1-2 on Jerry Smith with two outs in the seventh before building the suspense by losing him with three straight balls. But he didn't have to wait long. Two pitches later, Gib Cater slapped a hard grounder up the middle which Brown speared and flipped to first to end the ballgame...
...Elkin characters have sexual problems too. One, for example, must cope with a large female Kamchatkan brown bear, in heat. In The Dick Gib son Show (1971) a druggist tells how knowing the secret medical problems of his women customers gradually unhinged him: "My mind was like the waiting room of a brothel." More often, though, passion is the least Elkin's people have to worry about. Ben Flesh, the hero of The Franchiser (1976), learns in Rapid City, S. Dak., that he has multiple sclerosis. He worries about this and the effect of a current heat wave...
Things started off poorly for Penn and they just got worse. Quarterback Gib Carter fumbled on the team's fist offensive play, an error that led to a Cornell field goal and the beginning of the Big Red's 31-7 halftime lead. Dick Clasby, the Cornell fullback and son, the great Harvard running back of the '50s, collected the touchdown that put Cornell ahead...
...ECAC selection committee, headed by Gib Holgate of Yale, has guaranteed home ice advantage for Harvard and B.U., but has not yet seeded the eight teams that will compete in the tournament. Brown, Northeastern and possibly Clarkson are the three top candidates to be Harvard's opening round opponent in Watson...
...committee, which includes Warren Schmakel of B.U., Andy Geiger of Brown, Gib Holgate of Yale and Bob Deming of Colgate, had to wait for the results of last night's Cornell-Penn game before deciding on the eighth seed in the tourney. Penn's 6-7 overtime loss to the Big Red cost it a shot at the number eight seed and dropped the Quakers out of the picture altogether...