Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Rugby League Cup Final play-off at Wembley Stadium, London. The players don't wear padding, but they do handle the ball, and sports fans will detect some similarity to U.S. football...
...Central Park? It was. Stokie, conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, is an old hand at the game. He patiently drilled his musicians for the day when he could talk his neighbors, the New York Philharmonic, into a friendly match. So there he was zinging in the first ball while Umpire Skitch Henderson scrutinized his style. Even though the Philharmonic had a ringer in sometime triangle player George Plimpton, Stokowski's sluggers drummed out a 15-10 victory. "They're younger," allowed a Philharmonic musician. Not so, snapped the maestro: "When we play a game...
...swing. Unlike the T2000, which has its strings attached to a crown inside the frame, the aluminum racket is strung conventionally, through nylon-lined holes in the racket's head. This increases the size of the "sweet spot," the area of the racket face on which the ball can be hit with good effect, and makes the racket less likely to spin or twist on shots hit near...
Midfielder Jim Kilkowski took the "Ground-Ball" award for the second consecutive year. Showing the "greatest hustle" of any Crimson player on either offense or defense, Kilkowski snared 41 loose balls in Ivy play...
Those athletes positioned at lower singles rungs experienced a frustrating afternoon. Bill Ball and Chuck Smith struggled bravely before dropping tense three-set spectaculars at the second and third positions...