Word: leadoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh from a 4 to 3 win over Holy Cross, the Crimson golf squad moves to the Brown links tomorrow. Tom Wheeling, the team's outstanding competitor, will again be the leadoff man. Wheeling received a Pennsylvania state handicap...
...varsity opened the scoring in the top of the first, when leadoff man Tom Bergantino worked Shepherd for a walk, the first of four he gave up. After Bob Cleary struck out, Bergantino stole second, and scored on Simourian's double. Simourian, who had advanced to third on Hasting's long sacrifice fly, scored on a single by Matt Botsford...
With the meet close going into the relays, coach Bill McCurdy gambled on a quick victory, by throwing his best men into the mile relay. Leadoff man Dick Wharton handed second man Dave Brahms a five-yard lead, but disaster struck in the back stretch. Yale's second man Bob Kirschner attempted to pass Brahms on the inside at the same time that Brahms decided to move in. Brahms went flying, and by the handoff, was 15 yards behind second-running Princeton. No foul was called...
Despite a strong performance by injured leadoff man Mike Robertson, the varsity mile relay team finished third to Villanova and Morgan State in a feature race of Saturday's Millrose Games in New York's Madison Square Garden...
Robertson's leadoff time was 52 seconds flat, while Cairns was caught in a phenomenal 49.9. Morris, who slowed down after hearing that Kirschner had dropped the baton, finished in 51.8., while Wharton ran a creditable...