Word: lead-off
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CRIMSON SPLASHES: Bobby Hackett racked up another Blodgett Pool record Saturday. His lead-off split in the 400-yd. freestyle relay of 45.97 broke the previous mark...
...Harvard ninth Brandeis second baseman Brian Isaac returned the favor when he allowed lead-off batter Kelley to reach on his error. Stenhouse then moved pinch-hitter Bobby Jenkins to third as he followed with a single, and then Peccerillo pushed the tying run across with his sacrifice fly to left...
...Lead-off man Charlie Santos-Buch walked, and then advanced to second on a sacrifice. Santa came around to score on Stenhouse's dramatic blast to right, which provided the margin of victory...
...independent of the Carter Administration. Still, Jackson last week issued a statement backing the "President's efforts to obtain a comprehensive energy program," although he warned that Carter's proposed gas tax "won't get anywhere." This week the industrious Jackson will begin his hearings. His lead-off witness: Energy Chief James Schlesinger...
Died. Earle Combs, 77, Hall of Fame centerfielder from the great days of the New York Yankees (1924-35); after a long illness; in Richmond, Ky. Nicknamed "the Kentucky Colonel" because of his prematurely gray hair and gentlemanly ways, Combs was the lead-off hitter who got on base, thereby enabling Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to run up their imposing RBI records. A broken collarbone in 1935 ended his playing career, but he came back to coach his replacement, a new kid from the San Francisco Seals, Joe DiMaggio...