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...manager of the Chicago Cubs is obviously an impostor. The 1967 season is already more than half over, and this fellow who says he is Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, 60, has not cursed a single sportswriter, or attacked a single fan, and has been thrown out of only two games all summer...
Last year the Boston Patriots drafted two players out of Harvard's most successful football team in over 25 years--halfback Bobby Leo and defensive tackle Dave Davis. Other Ivy League schools have representatives in the professional ranks, but for Harvard the possibility that Leo or Davis might make it was something unique...
...pound shifty sprinter, Leo has long been the darling of every local sportswriter; he lives right here in Everett, Mass., and no one who has watched him can remember anyone quite so dazzling in this area of the country. He is small, but plenty fast enough to make the pros as a runner or flanker or defensive back. But alas, the Army got a hold of Bobby shortly before the Patriots did, and so the Wonder Boy must serve a six-month stint in the Reserves before folks can see whether he's got what it takes...
Davis, on the other hand, was a standout, but no superstar at Harvard. And yet he is a better pro prospect than Leo. At six-feet-six and 235 pounds, Davis was the quickest, though possibly not the strongest, of Harvard's interior linemen. Because it uses a pursuing style of defense, Harvard depended almost entirely on Davis for an occasional big pass rush...
...also a pretty fair description of Eddie's sometime teammate (on the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants) and current chief rival for the affections of Chicagoans: Manager Leo ("The Lip") Durocher of the Chicago Cubs-the hottest team in the National League. Beating the Cincinnati Reds 6-3 last week for their twelfth victory in 13 games, the Cubs climbed to within one-half game of first place, set Chicagoans buzzing about the possibility of an all-Chicago World Series-first in 61 years. But if The Brat and The Lip do clash in the Series...