U.S. Beats Soviets in Baseball

Johns Hopkins University took advantage of eight Soviet errors to post a 15-2 win today in the first U.S.-Soviet baseball game ever played on Russian soil.

A team from the D. I. Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Engineering, which had gotten instruction from the Johns Hopkins squad earlier this week, appeared overmatched by the Americans’ pitching. The Americans noted that because the Soviets practice indoors, they never see very high pop-ups and do not seem to be able to hit the ball out of the infield very often.