Word: southpaw
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...Southpaw Tom Boone started the game for the Crimson and went all the way, striking out ten and walking only three. With good support behind him, Boone was far more effective than in his first start Saturday against Northeastern...
...second singles, Bob Bowditch outlasted M.I.T.'s Jack Klapper, 6-2, 7-5, in a battle of southpaw sophomores, while Tim Gallwey, at number three, beat Tech captain Jeff Winicour, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. The varsity swept the remaining singles in routine fashion, with Fred Vinton defeating Bob Kennefich, 6-3, 6-3, Jorge Lemann whipping Bob Hodges, 6-2, 6-4, and Bill Wood routing Ravi Sikri...
...Spahn came back next day, and the Yankees rolled over and played dead -even Slugger Bauer, who had his record consecutive game hitting streak for World Series play snapped at 17. The hooknosed southpaw cleverly curved the Yankees until late afternoon shadows crept over the stadium, then opened up with a still hopping fast ball, retired 17 of the last 18 batters in fashioning a two-hit 3-0 shutout. Gloated Spahn: "Somebody got the impression that I can't throw anything but junk. Well, somebody is misinformed." Shortstop Tony Kubek let in the first Milwaukee run with...
Through nine torturous innings the 37-year-old Milwaukee southpaw, working with only two days rest, dueled with three different Yankee pitchers only to lose in the 10th. Singles by Elston Howard and Yogi Berra finished him off, and the Yankees added the all-important extra run on Bill Skowron's single off relief pitcher Don McMahon...
Confused by Lane's southpaw style, Brown found it difficult to land his wicked left hooks and right uppercuts. But in the end, it was the young challenger who tired. Brown began boring in, bloodied Lane's face in the 9th round, knocked his mouthpiece out in the 10th, made use of his six-inch advantage in reach to power hard rights deep into the challenger's stomach. By the 15th round, Lane was out on his feet, and Brown won a close but unanimous decision. The undisputed king of the lightweights went home to his wife...