'Crimson' Ten Bombs Hapless Tocsin, 23-2

The CRIMSON softball team, hitless for eight and two-thirds innings, poured across 23 runs in the top of the ninth and smashed a helpless Tocsin squad, 23 to 2. The disarmed Tocsin ten preferred to crawl on its knees to the big Red dugout rather than be annihilated in the CRIMSON holocaust.

Paced by two grand-slam home runs by Mike ("The Man") Lottman and the no-hit pitching of Joe ("Cowboy" Russin) and Steve ("The Arm") Roberts, the CRIMSON exploded with 37 hits after two out in the ninth. Pinch-hitter Steve Rogers scored the deciding twenty-third run, stealing second, third, and home in one play with a dazzling display of base-path wizardry. Tocsin's two runs came in the fourth when Joe ("Wild Man") Russin walked five in succession.

Scouts from 19 major-league teams watched the CRIMSON's crushing barrage, and the New York Mets signed three Crimeds to bonus contracts for a reported $150,000 apiece.