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This loss was the Crimson's second by one goal in a road-trip featuring games against two of the best three teams in the East. With its record now standing at 1-2, the varsity must wait until Thursday for the next game, against North-eastern University at Waston Rink...
Squeaking with enthusiasm, Campy keeps a chatter of encouragement flowing back to the pitcher. "Come on, roomie," he will holler at his road-trip roommate, Don Newcombe. "Hum that pea." Neither Newk nor anyone else is permitted a moment's carelessness. Once, when Don Newcombe crossed up his catcher with a slow curve after taking the signal for a fast ball, Roy promptly flipped off his mask and padded out to the mound. "How come you give me the local when I call for the express?" he demanded in singsong irritation. Campy believes that his chatter helps. Says...
...thin rain drenched Brooklyn. "Do you think those bums'll call it off?" muttered Hank Thompson as he riffled through his fan mail. "Hell, no. Anything for a lousy dollar." He slouched over for a rubdown from the trainer. Off in a corner, Willie Mays and his road-trip roommate, Monte Irvin, laughed apathetically over a joke. Across the room, a group of players carried on a silent gin-rummy game. Conversation, what there was of it, was dominated by an unimaginative profanity. Soon someone cussed out the clubhouse boy and sent him for sandwiches. Outside, a bunch...
...northern road-trip last weekend, the varsity gained easy wins over McGill University in Montreal and Dartmouth at Hanover...
This week, as the company gave its last Manhattan performance and headed out into the U.S. and Canada, tickets for all their road-trip appearances (in Washington, Richmond, Philadelphia, Chicago, East Lansing, Mich., Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal) were already sold...