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Incidentally, State College is famous around Dillon Field House as the hometown of co-captain Rogers. Rogers. who ran a 2:13 personal best in the leadoff leg of the relay, treated the team to a tour of State College as only a native can. Rogers reported the pinball palaces and "Stickies," a cinnamon roll indigenous to the area, proved the biggest hits among the visiting Cambridge dwellers...
Actually, they were for a moment, because Crimson starter Bill Larson forced leadoff bitter Dan Costello to chop to third for one up, one down. Things fell apart just about then, however: a walk, single and walk loaded the bases, a two-base error brought two runs home and Yale was off and running. Then single, single, walk, single, double, single, two-base error, single and three-base error, and it was 11-0, with reliever Billy Doyle coming and going along...
Another was the play of Bruce Weller, who improves daily in center field and at hat. The freshman had a tough time hattling the sun in the opener but made some difficult grabs look easy. He also rapped out three hits from his leadoff spot...
...Scheper made a sliding, one handed catch of a sinking liner. "I always hold up the ball real quick, just like the pros," Scheper said after the game...Everybody got into the hit parade except for Wark, the number-nine hitter. Freshman Bruce Weller continued to excel in the leadoff spot, rapping out two hits in five at bats. At Soldiers Field COLUMBIA (3) AB R H BI DiChiaro, ss 4 0 1 0 Larkin, 3b 3 0 1 0 Goryeb, 1b 4 0 0 0 Hanewich, c 4 1 1 0 Witkowski, dh 3 0 0 0 Rooney...
Doyle turned in seven strong if erratic innings, scattering four singles, fanning ten, and awarding seven walks. In trouble all day long (mostly because he walked the leadoff batter in five of his seven frames). Doyle mixed his curveball and fastball to whiff his way out of his jams...