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Finishing fifth in the league standings this spring after taking the championship last season, the Yale team has been plagued by weak pitching--a handicap which must come as quite a shock to coach Ethan Allen after his recent successes with Ken MacKenzie and Ray Carlsen. Diminutive southpaw Pete Higuchi, who lasted only one inning against the Crimson last month, may get the starting call again today...
Runyon's sawed-off Napoleon was a wiry Chicago southpaw pitcher named Dickie Kerr who had just won his second game for the White Sox in baseball's most embarrassing World Series. Behind him, some of the best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati...
...superb hitter. When Musial was not working on the mound, Kerr kept him in the line-up as an outfielder so that his potent bat was always available. Then one day Stan fell on his throwing arm and finished his career as a $100-a-month Class D southpaw. Despondently, Stan figured it was time to quit...
Yale coach Ethan Allen has assigned southpaw Pete Higuchi to handle the Elis' pitching. Featuring a slow curve-ball delivery, Higuchi triumphed over Princeton 3 to 2 last Saturday and has a 2-1 league record...
Either Dave Brigham or southpaw Gerry Emmet, prospective starters at Boston University yesterday, will take the mound against the Huskies. The Varsity, unbeaten in Eastern Intercollegiate League competition, is lodged in fourth place among Greater Boston teams--with a record of one win, one loss...