Word: lead-off
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...batters even got to first, and in the strikeout column stood ten big Ks. With that kind of pitching, all it took to wrap up the game was a pair of runs, both of them supplied courtesy of Leftfielder Lou Brock, 28, the Cards' hardhitting (at .299) lead-off man and baseball's most artful burglar since Maury Wills decided to go straight. Lean, whippet-fast, a master of getting the jump on a pitcher, Brock has stolen no fewer than 189 bases in the last three years, and reform never entered his head last week. Four times...
Frank Haggerty was the only double winner, copping both hurdle races. The slendor junior took his speciality, the 440 hurdles, in 54.9 and came back to win the highs for the first time since freshman year. His lead-off leg in the winning mile relay gave him 11 1/2 points for the day, more than his entire winter season total...
...realay Bobby Leo, Joe Smith Randy Thompson, and George Patterson won without opposition 43.5 as Eli lead-off man Grafton Reeves pulled a muscle in the first 100 yards of the race...
...usual the Crimson has a strong outfield. Captain John Dockery is the left fielder and will bat in the lead-off slot. Dan Hootstein, who hit .325 last year, will be in right. George Neville slumped some last year--he hit .345 as a sophomore--but he is still considered an outstanding centerfielder...
...fielding seven men won't necessarily be enough to knock off Tufts and Amherst in a three-way match this afternoon. The Jumbos' lead-off man is Bill Carroll, a junior who was a medalist in the Greater Bostons last year. The rest of the team will be less formidable but promises to be better than last year's squad that Harvard dumped, four and one-half to two and one-half...