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...order for Weller, Lyman and the rest of the Harvard baseball team-all underclassmen-to earn a trip west to the College World Series, they must outplay Maine, Seton Hall and Rider at the Northeast Regional today through Monday at Orono, Maine...
Joining Maine and Harvard will be Seton Hall and either Rider or Temple. The official announcement about teams, sites and seedings comes tomorrow, after Bergquidst, five other Division I coaches and NCAA liaison Jerry Miles grind out the details in a conference call. But unlike the basketball tourney, the baseball championship works primarily on geographic lines...
Laffit Pincay, Swale's jockey and Willie Shoemaker's idea of the best rider of the present day, had been second three times in the Derby, starting when Sham chased Secretariat eleven years ago. "I thought I was destined never to win it," he said. Sham had been Bull Hancock's best hope to win it. But Hancock, a gigantic figure in Bluegrass history, died that year. He bred Derby winners, but never owned one. "It's about time," said a lovely woman with white hair, his widow...
...horses to be loaded in the gate is hardship enough for any thoroughbred. But where three-year-old males are blithely ignorant of sexual affairs, a filly is eligible to "horse" at any time, to become distracted by spring. Whatever Althea's excuse, she finished 19th. The lady rider, Patti Cooksey, brought So Vague home a deserving eleventh, just ahead of Biloxi Indian, trained and owned by Dianne Carpenter. One woman in the winner's circle was a certainty though. As she proudly pointed out, Governor Martha Layne Collins was the first of her sex to dispense...
They used to call it dying in action Dying with your boots on. Or your gloves, depending on the profession. It's the sort of tradition that inspires cultural monoliths like the movies Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and, in a different sense, Easy Rider. In Butch Cassidy they really did screw up--Paul Newman and Robert Redford should have known not to rob that bank in the end. But they didn't really have a choice. The alternative was to loll around some more in that town in Bolivia and argue about who was sleeping with Katharine Ross...