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...major league games, only 86 have been no-hitters. The "perfect game"-i.e., a no-hitter with no batter reaching base on a walk or error-has not been achieved in the major leagues since 1922.* Last week Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher Carl Erskine missed the perfect game by the scant margin of a base on balls to-of all people-Pitcher Willie Ramsdell, weakest hitter of the Chicago Cubs...
Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, presented the Straus Trophy to this year's champion Eliot House at dinner Tuesday evening. The Elephant win broke the three-year string of Kirkland, which was second by a scant 22 1/2 points this season...
Still battling for the Yardling intramural, crown, Straus North and Holworthy are in a virtual tie as the latter leads by a scant 2 1/2 points, 538 1/2 to 526. Straus led the race all the way to the wire until a strong Holworthy rowing squad took first and Straus North gained only a weak seventh. The straus track team bounced back to take first, but Holwrothy finished strong and gained points on the cinders. The final score will be decided today when the tennis tourney is completed. Both dorms have entries in the finals; Straus in the doubles...
Although yesterday's performance had received only scant advance notice, every seat in the hall was filled long before the show began; even the aisles were occupied. Lehrer and his associates--Munro S. Edmonson. David Z. Robinson, Richard N. Schwab 3G, and Robert H. Walker 6G kept the assemblage laughing for a full hour...
Getting off to a commanding lead, the editors' eight ran into its first bad break when its number three man doubled up a scant five strokes from the start with acute gastroenteritis and was forced to take the emergency measure of swallowing his oar. Undaunted, the scribes retained their commanding lead over the fast stroking 'Poon, but adversity struck the editors once again when a species of highleaping truot sprang from the river and into the lap of the Crimson cox, temporarily blinding...