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...settle the matter once and for all. Craftier amateur physicists attribute the fence-busting to the fact that sluggers have shifted from the 52-oz. sledge hammer Babe Ruth once wielded to lighter. 30-to 32-oz. bats that whip the ball like a golf driver. Last week Dave Grote, National League pressagent who has been thinking about it. offered still another theory: today's hitters hit more homers because they are bigger, stronger...
...Grote computed the average heights and weights of National Leaguers of 1956 and those of 1936. He found that the composite first baseman today is 6 ft. 2½ in. tall and weighs 203 Ibs., 3 in. taller and 24 Ibs. heavier than the oldtimers. Third basemen are 2 in. taller and 18 Ibs. heavier than those of 20 years ago. Outfielders average 20 Ibs. heavier. Scientists have long known that each generation of Americans is larger than its predecessor, but the trend to larger, stronger ballplayers is not merely the result of genetics and good diet. Choke batters like...
Stroke Otto Grote kept Leverett at a high 34 for most of the race to pull off a mild upset over a fast-finishing Kirkland boat. The Deacons were hampered by the illness of stroke Randy Harris, which forced Al Rieselbach from six to stroke and put coach Tom Hagoort in at six. Kirkland, sprinting at a 38, almost caught the Bunnies at the finish...
...relatively short course. Eliot, with George Walcott at stroke and John Pratt coxing, should win the first race without much trouble. Dunster and Leverett are evenly matched, the former having practiced more often, but the Bunnies boasting the more experienced oarsmen. Bruce Morgan strokes the Dunster eight, Otto Grote, Leverett...
...Otto F. Grote--150 lb. Crew, '49-'52; Leverett House Dance Committee, Chairman; Inter-House Dance Committee, Chairman; Jubilee Committee...