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Each team had two unearned runs going into the last frame of the first game. Arnold, who had allowed only two hits and struck out seven, started his own downfall by walking pitcher Bruce Maclvor. A sacrifice moved Maclvor to second, and an infield hit put runners on first and third. McInnis then ordered Es Parker intentionally passed, bringing up Jim Churchill, the clean-up hitter and captain. The strategy proved disastrous when Churchill drove a base-clearing triple to right center and scored a moment later on a fly ball...
...story of Tap Roots is startling in a different way. Morna Dabney was betrothed to Clay Maclvor, but when infantile paralysis withered her right leg, he made off with her sister Aven ("graceful as a waterfall"). Morna had to content herself, illicitly, with the "incredibly handsome" Keith Alexander, while the leg limbered up. Keith (in nonfiction the remarkable Alexander Keith McClung) was the bitter bastard son of a great man in Washington. Keith shot 17 men for asking who. Author Street keeps his guesses to himself...
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