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Comic Brown, as resolute a baseball fan as ever fumbled a grounder, used to fly to Florida each spring to work out with the Yankees, and has been in & out of the locker rooms of half the teams across the nation. He has made three baseball movies (Fireman Save My Child, Elmer the Great, Alibi Ike), and his contract with
Crimson starter Bob Ward walked four men in the opening frame, to give the Jeffs a three run lead which they never never lost. Amherst lead-off batter Ash Eames walked, and Arnie Zins singled past second, sending Eames to third. When Crimson shortstop Ed Krinsky bobbled Tom Lewis' grounder, Eames scored...
...Hank Hamel put the Yardlings behind 8 to 3 going into the final frame. Pinch hitter Paul Bivona, leading off, was hit by a pitched ball. Ted Cooney forced Bivona at second and Cooney went to third on Jimmy Rahal's second single. Cooney scored when Bill Chauncey's grounder was booted...
Dartmouth scored their two decisive runs in the fourth inning. Lead-off batter Bill Contini reached second when his grounder to second was thrown wildly to first by Joe Conzelman, and George MacDonald, backing up, threw wild to second. Contini scored on John Mansfield's long double to left center field. Mansfield went to third on a wild pitch and scored when short stop Paul Murphy booted Scot Gerrish's grounder...
...first of the ninth the Crimson had a man in its first scoring position of the day, when Bennie Akillian walked, then went all the way around to third when the Bruin infield kicked around pick Clasby's grounder. Pitcher Rufe Webb, pinch-hitting for Ray Maesaka, pupped up to the catcher for the third out and the end of the Crimson's chances...