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Only last spring Cincinnati was scornfully dismissed as a sixth-place club with no more than a 25-1 shot at first place. The oddsmakers ignored the team because of its untested pitching staff and shaky infield. When the Reds stumbled off to a 5-10 start and plummeted into the cellar by the end of April, the oddsmakers seemed to have been right...
...varsity baseball team got some timely hitting from Charlie Ravenel, Al Marin, and Dick Diehl, good pitching from Al Yarbro and Tom Boone, and a few key errors from the Dartmouth infield as it defeated the Indians, 8-6, at Soldiers Field yesterday...
...help from the Dartmouth infield came in the sixth, when the Crimson scored its other three runs. Phil Bernstein's hit, an error on a sacrifice, Diehl's single, a wild pitch, a sacrifice fly by Yarbro, and another error on a throw from the outfield accounted for the three unearned runs...
Died. John Joseph (Jack) Barry, 73, slick-fielding shortstop who teamed with "Stuffy" Mclnnis at first, Eddie Collins at second and "Home Run" Baker at third to form the "$100,000 infield"* that sparked Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics to American League pennants in 1910, _ 1911, 1913 and 1914, a weak (.243) hitter whose glove work was so superb that Mack called him "the greatest shortstop there ever was," named him to his "dream team" in 1948; of cancer-in Shrewsbury, Mass...
Besides the inconsistency of the pitchers, the rest of the team has been solid. Mike Drummey has filled a weak spot at third base, and the rest of the infield is playing well. No less than seven regulars are hitting over. 300, and several others a good deal higher than that...