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...Crimson suffered a serious blow earlier this week with the loss of Sophomore Jay Sullivan. He had performed at third base admirably during the spring trip. To compensate for the loss, coach Norm Shepard will play either Chet Boulris or Moe Balboni at third. The other will start at right field...
...three leading candidates for the outfield are Mo Balboni, Charlie Ravenel, and Doug Brown; but Shepard admitted that the situation there is still far from clear. This left only pitching, the most uncertain part of the pre-season prognosis--"and the most crucial," as Shepard said with some emphasis. Through the whole of the afternoon he had paraded one man after another to the Briggs Cage mound, as part of an almost desperate search to uncover some new pitching talent. So far, apparently, the search has not turned up any new Bob Fellers...
...Shepard also has two men from last year's jayvees to work with, Renny Johnston and Ed Wadsworth. But the pitchers he will most rely on are Byron Johnson, 4-1 with the varsity last year, and sophomore Wally Cook...
...Johnson is strictly a control pitcher," Shepard said; "he can pitch to the corners; we used him largely in relief last year; and he is the smartest of the group.... Cook? Well, Cook has more stuff than Johnson--a good curve-ball and a pretty good fast one, too.... The others? Well, they haven't shown us a lot yet.... My gosh if anything happens to those first two follows (cook and Johnson), the games will last till after dark...
...Shepard was asked about his hitting this year, and at first he just shook his head. "Well, maybe Martin, maybe Harrington, maybe Boulris," he said after a moment. "But we've had some real good hitters the past few years--I mean fellows like Cleary and Hathaway and Saia--and my good gracious how we're going to miss them...