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Rainy Day Gives Chance For Trivia Test

Due to the fact that the doubleheader
with Clemson yesterday
was rained out, the sport page is
presenting for your pleasure today
a look into one of our favorite
rainy day diversions-sports trivia.
Anything that has to do with sports
and isn't too well known is fair
in this game, that will test your
devotion to both Virginia and national
sports. But if you do very
well on it, be careful. You're
probably a fanatic. Forthwith, the
questions.

1. Who was the last big league
ball player ever to hit over .400
and what was the year and the
exact average?

A. Ted Williams hit .406 for
the Boston Red Sox back in 1941.

2. What is Virginia quarterback
Gene Arnette's real first name?

A. Arnette's parents christened
him Clyde Eugene Arnette.

3. What Brooklyn pitcher threw
the ball that Bobby Thompson
of the Giants hit for a homer to
win the 1951 pennant, and what
was his uniform number?

A. The pitcher was Ralph
Branca, who appropriately enough
was wearing number 13 when he
blew the pennant for the Dodgers.

4. What section does Norm Carmichael's
father sit in at Virginia
home basketball games?

A. It's section 8, and contrary
to popular belief, Mr. Carmichael
is a one-handed whistler, saving
the other hand for pounding on
the rail.

5. What was ex-Giant quarterback
Y. A. Tittles' real first and
middle names?

A. Tittle was, and still is, formally
referred to as Yelberton Abraham
Tittle.

6. Who holds most of the Virginia
school track records?

A. The 1924 team.

7. Who is the only NBA basketball
player who graduated from
Prairie View College?

A. Zelmo Beatty of the St. Louis
Hawks.

8 Where does basketball coach
Bill Gibson get his hair cut?

A. Prairie View College's Barber
shop.

9. Who hit Herb Score in the
eye with a batted ball and ended
his promising career?

A. Gil McDougald of the New
York Yankees.

10. Who is ex-wrestling coach
Mike Caruso's toughest competition
in this country at 123 pounds?

A. Nobody, if you listen to
Caruso.

11. Who was the mysterious fourth
player in the 1958 Baltimore Colts
back field?

A. Who else but old number
45, L. G. Dupre.

12. Who always gets a seat on
the team plane to away games?

A. Tilly, the team bus driver
and good luck charm.

13. Who did Lou Gehrig replace
at first base when he began his
streak of 2,130 consecutive games?

A. Wally Pipp was the man
who never got in again.

14. How long is Virginia's quarter
-mile track?

A. Nobody really knows, but
the most reliable estimates place it
at 446 yards.

15. What is Gene Mahaffey
doing now?

A. Basketball coach and Athletic
Director at Carson Newman
College in Tennessee.