Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game proved to be the shortest played at Ebbets Field in two years-one hour, 51 minutes*;but the ball was actually in play only 18 minutes 34.7 seconds of that time. Here is how many of the other 92 minutes were spent: Pitcher Don Newcombe used the rosin bag 28 times, dawdling 2 to 18.1 seconds each time, and talked with Catcher Roy Campanella as long as 45 seconds at a huddle...
...Chicago, Elmer the Elephant is a pretty important TV personality. Elmer is a sort of Howdah Doody, but he is also only a bag of cloth until somebody gets inside to manipulate him into action. He was doing all right, too, until NBC decided to insert an actor in Elmer instead of a stagehand. The stagehands charged that NBC was unfair. Says William Rodriguez, attorney for Local 2, International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees: "For 100 years the stagehands have done the type of thing that is represented by Elmer the Elephant . . . And now these folks [The American Federation...
...hole at Spring Mill near Philadelphia in the Open of 1939. It has become a classic of a kind. His first shot hooked into the rough and left him with a sandy lie. Instead of playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled back toward the sand and hung precariously in long grass...
...even own a full set of clubs. He had a couple of battered woods, no irons, and a bag with a hole in it. He took his $10 salary (for two weeks' work) and made a down payment on a cheap set of irons. At the Cascades he had few customers, plenty of time to practice. Within two weeks Snead could beat both Homestead professionals. In 1935 Freddy Martin, golf manager at the rival Greenbrier. spotted Snead. For $45 a month, room & board, he lured Sam across the mountains to the Greenbrier. (With the exception of one year...
...liked the feel of it and Picard, who was planning to throw the club away, sold it to him for $5.50. The driver cured Snead's troublesome hook, and he has carried it in his golf bag ever since, broken and repaired a dozen times. (Snead estimates that he has won more than $5,000 with it in driving contests alone.) Snead and Fred Corcoran, then tournament manager for the P.G.A., became the Gold Dust twins. Together they pulled golf out of the doldrums. Corcoran, an entrepreneur with a leprechaun nose for pots of gold, succeeded in getting...