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...today's match should be little more than a warmup for the contest with McGill Saturday afternoon. Last year Harvard defeated the Canadian champs 6-3, but several of the matches went into five games. Coach Jack Barnaby expects the McGill match to be one of the two toughest the Crimson will face this year--the other coming in February against a Princeton team that's loaded with talented sophomores...
...When the warmup call goes out to the bullpen, Radatz consults his mental book on the hitters that he is likely to face. "If lefthanders are coming up," he says, "I practice throwing overhand. For righthanders, I warm up sidearm." He throws his fast ball about 80% of the time, and some rival batters claim they actually smell smoke as it rips past. "Sal Maglie taught me the importance of getting everything behind each pitch," Radatz says. "He argued that 240 Ibs. was a natural blessing-so why not put it to good use?" Radatz likes to face pinch hitters...
...match was the Crimson's final warmup before the U.S. Squash Raquets Association Championships in Detroit this weekend...
...easiest time of it. The meet against Cornell should be a straightforward victory, extending the Crimson's string of consecutive wins to fifteen. Despite the protestations of coach Bill Brooks that "we take each one as it comes along," the swimming team regards the Cornell meet as a warmup for the crucial clash with powerful Princeton...
...spacecraft's electronic nervous sys tem took over and issued commands of its own, starting a one-hour warmup period. It turned off instruments and turned on guidance gyros. It swung the directional radio antenna aside to get it out of the blast of the mid-course rocket motor. At the end of the warmup, Mariner II was ready for the crucial maneuver of its long voyage. Replaying the commands from earth, it rolled 9.33 degrees and pitched its nose around for 139.83 degrees. This turned its mid-course rocket motor forward, putting it in position to slightly reduce...