Word: plays
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...strong big three, but their only real batting strength comes from catcher Sherm Lollar and Jim Landis. Nellie Fox is always a dependable singles hitter, and Luis Aparicio is one of the classic players in the good-field no-hit school, combining with Fox for an excellent double-play pair...
Only the top six singles and three doubles will see action until the Princeton and Yale contests, which are played on a nine-match basis for the Eastern League and on a fifteen-match basis for Big Three purposes. Last year's Yale match, although the Crimson won the more important Eastern League match by 6-3, was an even split from the Eli standpoint, as they took the Big Three title, 8 to 7. In addition to Schwartzman and Smith, seniors Laurie Pratt and Jim Cameron--currently seven and eight--figure to play in the Big Three matches, although...
...rest of the league, only Dartmouth and Princeton seem to offer much competition for the varsity: the Indians because, according to Barnaby, they are "better than anyone gives them credit for," and the Tigers because the Crimson must play them at Princeton. The other league opponents are none too tough, and, of the non-league teams, only Amherst, which edged a crippled varsity last year, 5 to 4, might cause trouble, although they are much weaker than they were a year...
...absence of injuries has also been a tremendous help. Keating sustained the only serious one in Bermuda, a broken nose, but he has healed sufficiently to play tomorrow...
Hotspur lies dead, however, at the end of the play, and the coming repudiation of Falstaff is announced near the beginning. Shakespeare's theme, one of his favorites, is the defeat of high disorder and glorious idiosyncrasy by a comparatively hum-drum and rather chilly practicality, in the person of Henry, Prince of Wales. In Part II of Henry IV Shakespeare shows us that Hotspur's colleagues are merely anarchic self-seekers and that Falstaff and his friends have a sizeable streak of moral rottenness; in Henry V the now-eponymous hero reconciles (with some disturbing overtones) personal grandeur with...