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...they played??baseball in ancient Greece, Homer would surely have composed an ode to umpires, those stalwarts dressed in navy blue, divining balls and strikes and declaring men safe or out. Shag Crawford was proudly one of them, a tough ump from the old school, and he presided over plenty of drama in his two decades at the corners and behind the plate. He broke up one of baseball's scariest fights when an enraged Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants clubbed Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro on the head with a bat. He also had the nerve...
That day has come. The Mets started this season in typical fashion. They lost their first game?as they have lost every opening-day game they have ever played???to the league's new expansion team, the Montreal Expos, by the exasperating score of 11-10. By late May, they had lost five more games than they had won. Then, suddenly, they caught fire. They won eleven in a row, the longest winning streak in their history. They slumped briefly in midsummer, but they have since rallied to win twelve of 13 games. As the season turns the Labor...
Most of the subcommittee's hearings so far have been a post-mortem of the stock crash and the part the Federal Reserve played???or failed to play?to avert catastrophe. From the financiers who passed before his committee Senator Glass, arch enemy of stock speculation, got little support for his bills to penalize speculators with a new tax and to restrict the Federal Reserve's loan policy...
...match was hotly exciting. For five sets, less one point?a point that was never played???Berkeley Bell, agile, 125-lb. player from Dallas, Tex. had run after the hard forehand drives of Francis Townsend Hunter, longtime Davis cupman, No. 2 ranking player. Hunter lost the first set, but took the next two. Bell was coming up to the net in the fourth?hazardous tactics against anyone so accurate as Hunter?and even in the backcourt his legs pumped so fast that he made gets that seemed impossible. For such short legs, the pace was hard, and while Hunter...
...parade of Civil War veterans then entered. Mr. Mondell introduced them as "defenders of the Union." The audience stood and the aged veterans paraded down the centre aisle. Patriotic airs of Civil War time were played???including Marching Through Georgia...
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