Word: starter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backing the New York Yankees, they used to say, was like backing U.S. Steel, and after last week, there is no reason to change your mind. It will go to the wire, but if the better-balanced Detroit Tigers can find a reliable fourth starter, the World Champions' current monopoly will be busted...
...this point the team's strong point is a slick fielding if not power-laden infield. Returning from last year are first baseman Phil Bernstein, shortstop Dave Morse, and third baseman Mike Drummey. The fourth starter is junior Terry Bartolet...
...then there was Mike Austin, Yale's amazing sophomore sprinter. He jumped out of a Russian class this morning and raced by bicycle to the pool just in time for the trial heat of the 50 yard freestyle. He hopped on to the starting block as the starter was ready to go, and then casually qualified in 0:21.7 (the NCAA record...
...nine points toward the 1962 manufacturers' world championship. Driving in the faster sports-car class, California's Dan Gurney, a three-year Grand Prix veteran, wound up the overall winner. He averaged 104 m.p.h. in a low-slung Lotus, managed to limp over the line on his starter motor when his engine quit 200 yds. from the finish...
...starter, Mozart's Duo for Violin and Viola in G (K. 423) makes nearly equal demands on violinist and violist, and regrettably the two performers were not equally up to them. Roy Sonne, violin, delivered a strong, clear line, which became tiresome only when it remained a strong, clear line throughout most of the three movements. But by playing double stops out of tune, occasionally missing entrances that should have been carefully timed, and rushing sustained notes, Joan Renne (violist) vitiated much of Sonne's power...