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Another questionable starter is second baseman Chico Garcia. He was spiked in a steal attempt Wednesday. The injury, plus the fact that Garcia has been in a batting slump, with a meager .045 overage so far, may lead Park to try someone else at second. Junior John Ballantyne, back-up third baseman, may be the choice...
Harvard's starting pitcher will be right-hander Bob Dorwart, who compiled a 2.14 earned run average last season. The Crimson's second starter last year, Dorwart, pitched his strongest game at the end of the season, allowing only five hits in an 11-inning NCAA tournament loss...
Gogel was being used as a replacement for Bob McDowell, who was injured on the trip. If neither Gogel nor McDowell is ready to return to action, Munro will use Brian Landry. The only regular starter on defense still healthy is All-Ivy selection Mike Ananis. Filling in for Barber is Bill Bennett, captain of last year's freshman team. Wilcox's replacement in goal is Ely Kahn...
Rockefeller, arriving in Miami, as "black comedy Falstaff, not only disastrous in himself, but the cause of disaster in others. ... He was not only a late starter; he had developed a fascination with the starting gate, and kept circling through it as if it were a revolving door." To the surprise of many readers of William F. Buckley's magazine, he was generally sympathetic to the kids in Chicago, whom he described as soft and supple. He spent days among them, and felt that their behavior was shaped by events, rather than vice versa...
...starter, Waltz blows the top off a mountain; then he goes on to sink an is land and dig a moon crater or two. In Act II, a sequence of absurdist hilarity, the nation's council of generals begins bidding at 2,000 crowns and goes to 1,000,000 in a vain effort to buy Waltz's infernal machine. During the negotiations, these senile clowns play with toy automobiles and sail paper airplanes at one another and into the audience...