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...Godin will probably be Stuffy McInnis' choice for the mound. Godin, who set a new Ivy League record with 86 strikeouts last season, fanned four batters Saturday before the game was rained...
Hugh Raphael started the game for the Funsters and was kept on the mound in spite of six runs scored against him in the first inning. The Dunster nine suffered a case of defensive stage fright, and when two hits, a dropped fly ball, a bad throw from the outfield, four bases on balls, a hit batsman, and several wild pitches had transpired, the Bellboys were sitting comfortably on top of all the lead they needed...
...around the cage couldn't testify as to the ability of the others. The possibility of the famed two-man staff trying it again this year seemed pretty good. As in the case of other positions the lack of a Jayvee team last year will hurt the mound staff deeply. The transition from freshman ball to varsity is a pretty tough one, McInnis has said, and it's only the exceptional player that can make it in his sophomore year. A Jayvee team enables those fellows who couldn't make it right off to get some more experience...
Ready to follow these gentlemen to the mound in any or all games, lefty Joe Page won 13, lost eight, in a return to the form that gave the Yankees the 1947 world championship...
...Donora High's star pitcher. He was also bat boy during the summer for the zinc works' semi-pro team, managed by Joe Barbao. One day, with his club shorthanded and his pitcher wilting before the Monessen (Pa.) sluggers, Joe sent Bat Boy Musial to the mound. The rest of the team thought it was a joke until Musial struck out a batter: he wound up by striking out 13 men in six innings...