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Varsity baseball coach Norm Shepard, who is also mentor of junior varsity football, is not able to attend the autumn practice, but captain Al Martin will lead the candidates in daily sessions...
...Wadsworth, the best man on coach Shepard's very capable mound staff, will probably get the starting assignment today. Wadsworth also started the earlier Eli game, and was not up to his usual standard of effectiveness. However, his overall performance this season has clearly established his excellence as a pitcher (his won-lost record is 4-2, his earned run average around 2.00) and it will be surprising if he does not improve on that previous Yale outing...
...case Wadsworth should run into difficulty, Shepard can call upon either Wally Cook or Byron Johnson, two pitchers who have both done very well during the latter part of the season. Cook, indeed, saved the first Yale game with a fine fourinning relief...
Look to Tomorrow. Last week, stirred and cajoled by Sam Shepard for 19 months, the children had a report card to cheer. New tests of Sam Shepard's eighth-graders showed twice as many (14.8%) ready for top-track high school work next fall. At one school, where only 28% of first-and second-graders were reading at the national norm last June, the rate had soared to 57.2% by January...
...Shepard is hardly satisfied yet, this summer will deluge parents with letters urging them to keep children studying on their own for a head start next fall. "Why should a boy strive to overcome all obstacles and get a college degree and then have to run an elevator?" he asks. "Because we simply cannot base our possibilities on present limitations. They might be swept away tomorrow by the president of the company, and then it would be too late for preparation...