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Hoping to clinch his third straight Greater Boston League championship and sustain the team's remarkable 13-game winning streak, coach Norm Shepard started left-handed ace Paul Del Rossi. But almost from the first pitch it was sadly apparent that Big Del was off his game...
...Paul Del Rossi, who has the best Harvard pitching record in modern times, has a 5-0 mark this year and an 0.98 earned run average--and that's the worst E.R.A. on the staff. The pitchers as a whole have an 0.74 average...
Until the eighth. Paul Del Rossi and Princeton ace Gerry Skey had been locked in a lefthanders' pitching duel. Skey gave up two hits in the second and then settled down to pitch one-hit ball for the next five innings. He wound up with eight strikeouts...
...came in the seventh when a single by catcher Jack Singer, a sacrifice, and an error put men on first and third. Coach Ed Donovan sent up a pinch-hitter, Vic Wooley; Del Rossi struck him out. The next batter was Skey, the pitcher; Del Rossi struck him out, ending the inning with a flourish. Del Rossi's record is now 5-0, his earned run average...
Today the varsity, now sporting a 10-0-1 record, tackles Columbia, the only team to beat Del Rossi last year. The pitcher who won that day, Neil Farber is back again, but after a sensational sophomore season, the fluffballing righthander is taking his lumps this year...