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...have plenty of support. All-New England second baseman Neil McPhee (.347 last year) has moved over to fill in at shortstop; Paul Lombardi (.313), an outfielder last year takes over at second. With Captain Jim Keening (.306) at third, the Huskies should have the best-hitting infield around...
...baseball team practiced in Briggs cage for about three weeks before spring recess. On the basis of this skimpy observation, coach Nat Harris cautiously says that his team has pretty good depth at the plate and on the mound. His chief worry, Harris believes, will be infield defense...
...home run off Lee Sargent in the third inning, and gave the Spiders a 1-0 lead, which stood up until the sixth inning. A walk to Skip Falcone, a sacrifice by Miller, and a single by Stephenson tied the score. In the ninth Tobin beat out an infield hit, John Dockery sacrificed him to second, and Liebgott won the game with a single to left...
...mile course was part road, part track; in the infield, it snaked through a series of sharp hairpin turns; then it swept onto Daytona's ultrafast, banked stock-car oval. In the lighter, more maneuverable Lotus, Gurney picked up valuable seconds on the turns; Foyt got the seconds back by blasting around the oval flat-out at nearly 185 m.p.h. By the 20th lap, both had lapped the entire field. But neither one could shake the other. Sixteen times in the first 38 laps the lead changed hands, while both drivers nursed their cars carefully, hoping for a break...
...robbed!" came the battle cry. A youth hurdled a 3½-ft. fence onto the track, brandished a fist-and hundreds swarmed after him. They attacked the judge's booth at the finish line, injuring John DeMatteo, who was pinned inside. They threw bottles at the infield tote board until the lights that indicate the amount of money bet finally winked out. They pulled a sulky from the paddock and set it afire. Bands of vandals dashed wildly through the stands, breaking windows, lighting bonfires, ripping program booths apart...