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With Coach Floyd Stahl already stumped on his pitching problem for this vital week of League competition, Ned Fitzgibbons has turned up with a cold which complicates the entire situation...
Cornell crossed one run on three hits in the seventh to keep her lead. Then, with O'Donnell and Waldstein on base and two outs, clean-up hitter Ned Fitzgibbons waited for two strikes. Finally picking a choice pitch, he clouted the day's most powerful hit, a full-size home run to center, tying up the ball game. Bill Barnes, after an umpire-Cornell coach dispute, gave promise of keeping the streak rolling. Callanan reached first on an error but was caught off the bag in an attempted double steal, ending the threat...
Bart Harvey slapped a long single to left sending Bill Haussermann, running for O'Donnell, home, Waldstein to third, and Nichols to the showers. Herb Ginsberg took the mound and promptly walked Ned Fitzgibbons, filling the bases. Then Bill Barnes boomed his third single of the contest to the left side lines. Waldstein scored the winning run and the game was over...
Bart Harvey knocked out half the squad's hits, totaling two for four times at the plate. Ned Fitzgibbons and Clay collected the Crimson's other two singles. For the Purple, catcher Buster Mills hit four for four and center fielder Johnny Bezemes slammed a two-run homer in the fifth...
...home team's biggest inning was the lucky seventh, when Harvey led, off with a single and, after Ned Fitzgibbons and Buckley were retired, singles by the next four batters scored four runs and sowed up the ball game. Buckley's single in the eighth scored Gerry Callanan, who had walked, for the final Crimson tally...