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...Mastodons racked up three triples in defeating the commuters. Tener Eckelberry knocked out a triple for the longest blow of the game...
Shaky pitching aided the tasks of batters in the softball contests, with almost as many runs forced across the plate on walks as were batted in. It was only a case of which team could last the longest, and Adams and Kirkland had the most endurance...
...ultimate aim of all their strivings is to take home the Goldthwaite Cup emblem of Big Three 150-pound crew championship. They will row for it at Derby, Conn. The course will be the regulation Henley distance, a mile and five sixteenths, precisely the length of the longest straight stretch on the English Thames where the original Henley is held...
Already known as Lippy, young Leo Durocher insolently replied: "Yeah? Listen, you big slob, I've got a brain. All you got is a strong back. We'll see who stays in the big leagues the longest." Durocher was thrown off the gentlemanly Yankees, bounced in Cincinnati, and came down to earth in St. Louis with the famed Gashouse Gang (Pepper Martin, Dizzy Dean and Frankie Frisch...
Again in Austryn Wainhouse's "The Cigarette Lighter," the addition of editorial perspective to the author's marked literary and dramatic talents could have saved the story from its present confusion. It is the longest work in "Radditudes," and most ambitious; its study of a student suffering from some sort of war neurosis leaves the reader impressed and bewildered. If there had been no attempt at symbolism, if Wainhouse had limited himself to a simple character sketch, the story would have been clear and good. Once he decided to have the cigarette lighter mean something, he should have made...