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...Sweat, Work, Tears, Determination...
...Freshmen in good health, of course, will have to sweat three times a week this summer. Athletic activites authorized for credit are tennis, swimming, volleyball, sculling, and calisthenics, in addition to intramural softball and baseball...
...came in without turning-Batsman Bert Haas could almost count the stitches -but took a wicked dip just before he swung. Haas barely ticked the ball, which dribbled a few feet. It was an easy put-out at first. Roared Haas: "That was that sweat ball!" The sweat ball (which is a spit ball parading as an accident of nature) is illegal. But the umpire shook his head and the game went on. Schoolboy Rowe of the Philadelphia Phillies grinned; whatever it was, that pitch had gotten him out of many a tight spot...
Giant Trouble. Several managers in the National League suspect Rowe of throwing sweat balls. They can't prove it. Four weeks ago at the Polo Grounds, Schoolboy threw one that did a dipsy-doodle. It veered crazily downward the same way a knuckle ball does-and everybody knew that knucklers are not Schoolboy Rowe's specialty. The Giant batsman struck out by a foot. Manager Mel Ott rushed out of the dugout to protest; he demanded to see the ball...
...before, it was dry. Growled Ott: "Sliders and sinkers revolve-you can't see the stitches on the seams as they come to the plate like you can with a spitter." Other pitchers-Rip Sewell, Fred Ostermueller, Claude Passeau-have been unofficially accused of using "spit-sweat" balls in pinches. They deny it, and so does Schoolboy Rowe...