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Googlies. But there are a select few Americans, possibly 5,000 in a handful of colleges and clubs, who understand the complexities of cricket. They think it rather keen to serve the batsman "googlies" and "yonkers" and play positions called "second slip," "gully" and "silly mid-on." What is more, the very best of them were over in England last week impertinently challenging the masters to a match. They got a hearty welcome. Except for the U.S., cricket has spread around the empire, with frequently embarrassing results. Twice running, in 1963 and 1966, the West Indies beat England in test...
Peters allowed Yale three of its four hits, one of its three walks, a hit batsman, and its lone run -- along with Harvard's only two errors -- in three final frames that threatened to turn the game around. At one point in the seventh, Peters was ready to be relieved, but Coach Norm Shepard stayed with the big righthander and saw him fan the final two batters with two men on in the ninth...
Harvard went 11 runs up after six innings on the strength of a hit batsman, a double down third by Dockery. and another single by the rampaging Neville...
...eighth, the tiring Lincoln loaded the bases on two walks and a hit batsman. He might have escaped the inning unbloodied if he and Welz hadn't played no sir please, after you with a two-out popup. The ball dropped, a run scored, and basketball star Mike Silliman followed with a single that drove in two more. Hayes' triple and a squeeze play scored Army's final run in the ninth...
...Tigers' top batsman (if he can be dignified with the name) is hitting all of .229, and only two of his teammates are over .200. Surprisingly, many of the players from the team that finished second in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League last year are back this season, but they're all suddenly impotent at the plate...