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With two out in the fifth inning, Ravenel again set things moving with a single to deep shortstop and stole second a few pitches later. Then Shima blasted a double between the gap in left centerfield to give the Crimson a 2-0 lead...
...Wadsworth pitched his finest game of the year and former J.V. outfielder Dave Shima delivered three important hits in five trips to the plate, as the Crimson baseball team defeated Boston College, 6 to 1, yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...club does not have long-ball hitters, and it will have to depend on several players who have a high average because of singles. Bob Forbush, the left fielder, had a batting average in the 300's last year. Bill Rodgers, at shortstop, and Dick Shima, the centerfielder, are also expected to hit well...
...Ready Trap." As the Japanese admiral recalls it, there was tragedy, but no buffoonery. In late 1944, he explains to Student Frazer, the imperial navy was still strong, but it had been pushed back so fast that it was badly disorganized. Just before the Leyte Gulf battle, Shima's force had wild-goose-chased after a supposedly crippled U.S. force. Shima steamed for the fringes of the vast Leyte engagement after other Japanese naval forces had set out, and the necessity for radio silence, he explains, meant that he could not coordinate his strategy or tactics with theirs. Faced...
Bill Frazer hopes for more letters. A reply from Admiral Kurita would be particularly valuable; he has been criticized for turning back into San Bernardino Strait, north of Samar when he might have dealt a telling blow to a U.S. force inferior in speed and firepower. But Shima offers the schoolboy historian an understandable summing up of Japanese hesitancy at Leyte: "A further defeat meant to Japan no longer incidental losses but loss of life itself...