Word: pitches
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Righthander John Scott, who has a 1-2 record, will start for Harvard. Despite his unimposing record, Scott has been the one bright spot on an otherwise pitch-poor squad. He has yielded only six earned runs in 27 innings, for a 2.00 ERA. Scott registered the Crimson's only victory on its ill-fated Southern tour; on Wednesday against Boston University he gave up only five hits in eight innings but dropped a 1-0 heartbreaker...
White Voices, touted in publicity as an Italian-style Tom Jones, is a ribald comedy based on one long, indelicate joke about the once-celebrated castrati, the eunuch sopranos of Italy. Gelded at an early age to preserve the pitch and "whiteness" of their voices, the castrati enlivened Europe's leading salons and opera stages for most of the 17th and 18th centuries...
Dockery homered again in the sixth to put Harvard one-up, but Springfield recaptured the lead in the bottom of the inning, knocking Mitchell out of the box. The Maroons collected four singles, producing two runs, and Jim McCandlish came on to pitch for the Crimson...
What makes the Dodgers, of course, is the pitching staff, and, yes, I'm quite aware of Sandy Koufax's latest medical bulletins. If Koufax can't pitch at all. I agree, the Dodgers are dead. But if he can go once a week, which the doctors say he probably can do, the Dodgers look golden. No other team can bring a topflight starter to the mound as consistently as Los Angeles, with Koufax, Don Drysdale, and the rejuvenated Johnny Podres now backed up by Claude Osteen, who some won 15 games for the lowly Washington Senators last year...
Speaking for the court, Justice John M. Harlan last week seemed at first to be sympathetic to Ervin's pitch. "An employer has the absolute right to terminate his entire business for any reason he pleases," ruled Harlan. To hold otherwise "would represent such a startling innovation that it should not be entertained without the clearest manifestation of legislative intent or unequivocal judicial precedent...