Word: warmups
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...game, he suggested that an intentional pass should be automatic without the pitcher's having to throw four balls, that the ball should not be chucked around the infield after every out, and that relief pitchers who have been warming up for seven innings" should not throw eight warmup pitches when they enter the game...
There is, of course, more than one way to train for a Davis Cup match. Some ways are just better than others. Australia's defending champions got ready for last week's challenge round by playing in warmup tournaments and running laps. Their Spanish challengers had a different theory. They arrived in Australia two weeks late, explaining casually that they had missed a connection in Tahiti. ("It was," sighed Spain's Luis Arilla, "such a beautiful spot.") Then they begged out of two Australian tournaments and didn't even hoist a racket during a "practice session...
Three games of trigger-happy shifting by Coach Cooney Weiland produced a combination of sophomores and lettermen that blasted Bowdoin, 9-2, last Wednesday. With a winning combination at least temporarily set, tonight's 8 p.m. encounter with the St. Nicholas Hockey Club will be a final warmup before the Crimson confronts the biggest hockey powers in the Northeast...
This game was more than a warmup against paunchy veterans from yesteryear. The alumni featured Gene Kinasewich, now playing on the Eastern Olympic Hockey Club, Bob and Bill Cleary, stars of the U.S. Olympic hockey teams in '60 and '64, Ike Ikauniks, all-East for Harvard two seasons ago, and John Daly and Wade Weich, last year's captain and goalie, respectively...
...Harvard freshman football team plays Brown in Providence today, and the contest should prove a not-very-strenuous warmup for the Yale game next week...