Word: one-run
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...Yardlings grabbed a one-run lead in the first inning. With one out, Captain Bob Smith shot a single to right, and John Collins scored Smith from first with a double to right center...
Lowell came close to batting around again in the second, when it scored four more runs. Then Raphael settled down to one-run ball, retiring the last seven men in order. Jerry Ulin picked up the Funsters' lone hit, a single in the third...
...both pennant races, this hitless brand of play was not the kind to inspire frenzied cheering. In the second game, the story was almost the same, in reverse. Brooklyn's skinny, curve-balling lefthander, Preacher Roe, gave up only six scattered hits while his teammates babied the one-run lead they had acquired in the second inning to a 1-to-0 victory...
...while, however, they will explode for a large number of runs. They beat Yale, 13 to 4, and scored nine against Dartmouth and 10, 13, and 11 in three other games. Coach Paul Amen's soldiers forced Cornell and the Brooklyn Dodgers into extra innings before dropping one-run decisions...
...apparently enough to cause the itinerant sportsmen from Cambridge to err six separate times and lose to Pennsylvania 7 to 6 the day after their Princeton stopover. This second game was horribly reminiscent of some of the team's local efforts, for a four-run seventh produced a one-run advantage which Red Connolly and his eight reluctant backers-up were unable to group securely enough...