A Big Night

A pitching performance that was up to big league standards — at least the New York Yankees thought so — was turned in by Jimmy Doole '45, baseball coach at Punahou School, when he held the vaunted Yankee sluggers to six hits and one run in eight innings during their recent barnstorming visit to Hawaii.

Doole's Red Sox lost the game, 4-1, in the ninth when their defense fell apart, but the evening still was a big success for the ex-Dartmouth pitcher. In the second inning he fanned Skowron, Cerv and Noren in order, and Yogi Berra, whom Doole feared most, failed to get a hit off him.

After the game Doole admitted that his control was good and that his slider was working beautifully. His slow style of pitching is often referred to as "junk," especially by those who can't hit it.

Doole has been at Punahou School in Honolulu since 1947 as history instructor and coach of baseball and basketball. He has played a good bit of semi-pro baseball and two years ago went to Japan with an all-star Hawaiian team.