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...stop halfway with the Peggy Joyce item. There was Joey Adams to see ("I just didn't know my own strength"), and he who got socked ("I just walked up behind her, and kissed her once, and said something about 'How about marrying me, Babe?' Really, I don't remember. . . ."). Then there was Eyewitness Jorge Benavides. a Peruvian delegate to U.N. Said he: "In Peru, we do what you do here in America. We bop him on the nose, like you say. Is that correct? Please do not involve me in any fights...
This fall Conn Smythe replaced his aging once-greats ("Sweeney" Schriner, Lome Carr, "Babe" Pratt) with a bunch of promising youngsters, reducing the average age of his team from over 30 to 24. Then he announced: "There are oneway tickets to the minors for any players who get shoved around and take it numbly." Last week none of his youngsters, most of them ex-servicemen, were playing for Lady Byng. Body-checking their way into the league lead, they had run up 108 penalty-box minutes in eleven games...
...bunt set off the mightiest roar heard in Fenway Park-and St. Louis modified its radical "Williams" defense. But Lone Wolf Williams might have to do a lot of talking before the Red Sox or any other team pays him the $80,000 he wants in 1917. Said Babe Ruth, the only baseballer ever to get $80,000 in one season: "A great hitter must be able to hit to all fields...
...semifinals, Mary was matched against the great Mildred ("Babe") Didrickson Zaharias. Babe's tee shots boomed down the fairways about 80 yards farther than Mary's. Mary's unorthodox swing, which her father, a golfing dentist, refuses to correct, looked pitifully inadequate. But the closer she got to the green, the deadlier her game became. The best stick in her bag was a battered 15-year-old putter, with which she sank two 35-ft. putts. Babe fell two holes behind in the first three and could not catch up. Exit the Babe...
Died. Tony ("Poosh'em Up") Lazzeri, 41, onetime hard-hitting, pantherlike second baseman and infield sparkplug of the New York Yankees (1925-37), who starred with Titans Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as a member of the famed "Murderers' Row"; after a fall apparently due to a heart attack; in Millbrae, Calif...