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...burly right-hander made only one mistake. In the third inning, after getting two quick strikes on his opposite number. Red Sox starter Jose Santiago, Gibson grooved a high fastball. Santiago drilled it into the left field screen, a narrow foot over the Green Monster...
...Carl Yastrzemski supplied the only happy moments in the Boston homecoming. Yaz drove in all three Sox runs in the seventh inning with a towering blast over the flagpole in left-center. The homer was Yastrzemski's 43rd of the season--tieing Ted Williams' club record for a left-hander--and boosted Yastrzemski's league totals in HR's and RBI's in his bid for the American League Triple Crown. He also hit a double in three official at-bats to raise his season average...
...Rocket. With that kind of money at stake, it is no wonder that the competition is fierce. Current king of the pros is redheaded Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 28, the Australian left-hander who five years ago became the only player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of amateur tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Laver turned pro in 1963 and learned quickly how much tougher it was to play for pay: he lost 19 out of his first 21 pro matches. Last year Laver was the tour...
Senior left-hander Jim McCandlish required ninth-inning relief help from sophomore Ray Peters to pick up the win. The rain-interrupted contest was marked by Harvard's ten-hit attack and sloppy play by both teams...
While Peters was having his troubles on the mound. Harvard's batsmen were having their own difficulties with Shaw. The lanky left-hander never let a Crimson runner past second base, scattering six singles in the nine innings. Phil Smith and Pete Karegeannes had two safeties apiece to pace the Harvard hitters...