Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played the marlin with back motion, changing his hand from rod to reel, until his kidney harness broke. The other boys tried a shoulder harness on him, but that was no good. Said Louis: "My arm was sore, my back was sore, my seat was sore. They poured water on me and on the reel and tried different shoulder straps until I bled in four places. I hate to give up a pole, but I finally had to give it to John...
...fact that two men handled the rod may keep Schmidt from becoming the new recordholder. But the International Game Fish Association might make an exception. Louis Schmidt, injured as a boy in Baltimore, has only one arm...
...never put the bomb in. Just before the bell for the tenth round, Cerdan's manager decided to disregard the protests of his fighter: he threw in the towel. "What's the use?" snapped one of his seconds to ringsiders, "He can't lift his left arm...
Feller himself, a confident, hard-boiled-businessman ballplayer, insisted there was nothing wrong with his arm that time could not cure. He had pulled a shoulder muscle in spring training at Tucson, while demonstrating Cleveland's pickoff play for photographers, and the arm stayed weak. Complete rest might have been the soundest treatment, but the Indians were loth to shelve their high-priced star; Right-Hander Feller took his pitching turn-and his lumps-without complaint...
Curves & Sliders. In Yankee Stadium this week, with 49,031 pairs of eyes upon him, Rapid Robert's arm felt stronger than it had all season. With a powerful motion, Feller fed the league-leading Yankees his old familiar assortment of stuff-sliders, fastballs, curves and change-ups. The Yankees got only one hit off him after the fourth inning, and Feller was still in there pitching at the end. The Indians won, 4-2, with Feller holding the fort until Teammate Vernon, back at first base, could unload a two-run homer in the eleventh inning. Feller...