Word: runners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last semblance of depth gone, Coach Bill McCurdy threw a quartet of Bob Weil, Mike Robertson, Al Gordon, and Dick Wharton against Yale's Jack Halpern, Ed Holohan, Bob Skerritt, and John Slowik, Crimson anchorman Dick Wharton faced the impossible task of making up nearly twenty yards on a runner of Slowik's calibre. Yale won by fifteen yards in 3:19.2, a meet record. The varsity was caught...
Hoak's Hoakum. Cincinnati's Don Hoak was first to set the rule writers working. Leading off second in a game with the Milwaukee Braves, Base Runner Hoak started for third when Cincinnati's Wally Post laced a grounder to short. Redleg Gus Bell, who had been holding first, took off for second. With his sharp infielder's eye, Hoak recognized the setup for an almost certain double play. With his sure infielder's hands he fielded the ball, tossed it to the Braves' astonished shortstop, Johnny Logan. "Hit" by a batted ball, Hoak...
...Hoak's blatant assault on the rules was too much. From now on, said National League President Warren Giles, if an umpire thinks that a runner has deliberately interfered with a batted ball in order to break up a double play, both the runner and the man behind him on the base paths will be called...
...Front-Runner. The state-owned National Iranian Oil Co. is sinking another well near the sealed-off gusher, plans to put down five more during the next 18 months to outline the field. The new holes will tell whether Iran struck an isolated pocket of oil under extremely high pressure or whether Qum is one huge continuous field. If it is the field that Iranians-and some U.S. oilmen-believe it is, then it will take enormous amounts of cash and special know-how, more than the Iranians possess, to control the mighty gas pressures and extract...
Apparent front-runner in the race for the Qum oil concession is Italy's state-owned ENI oil and gas monopoly, headed by ambitious Enrico Mattei, who wants to force Italy's way into the international consortium of British, Dutch, French and 14 U.S. oil companies that holds the concession on Iran's older oilfield along the Persian Gulf. A fortnight ago ENI had reportedly closed a deal to exploit Qum itself. Last week it was disclosed that ENI had merely initialed a contract, subject to ratification by the Iranian Parliament, to explore three other areas. Under...