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Except for this wartime note, broadcast by big-league clubs, the 1942 baseball season opened this week much as usual. Some headliners were missing-notably Detroit's Hank Greenberg, Cleveland's Bob Feller, Washington's Cecil Travis, Philadelphia's Sam Chapman-and many another great ballplayer will follow them to war before the season ends. But draft or no draft, U.S. baseball fans were down with their perennial spring fever: trying to dope out how 16 big-league teams will finish in far-off October...
Finn Ferner made third place in 2:22.8 minutes, followed closely by Del Ames, fifth with a 2:31.2 time, and Hank Bigelow, again in the seventh spot clocked at 2:34.2. Will Cochran brought the Yardlings in after the University of New Hampshire, taking eleventh place...
Finn Ferner and Hank Bigelow are the logical favorites to gain top honors for the "A" team, but experience so far this winter has discouraged heavy bets on any one person, so Del Ames and Tom Winship are likely to place as high as either of the others...
Harvard's "A" team total time fell only eight-tenths of a second behind Dartmouth in the second series, giving it a secure second at the final count, but Sophomore Hank Bigelow, a jump and cross-country man racing for the "B" team, rivaled Ferner for the most surprising Crimson performance by ranking seventh in a field of sixty...
...shoot, he was blinded by flashlight bulbs. Nevertheless, he finally sank one from the foul line and the shot the cameramen were after was recorded: Modzelewski scoring his 1,597th point in four years of college basketball. It cracked the all-time record* set by Stanford's Hank Luisetti four years...