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...slid in behind the pace, well out of trouble. At the three-quarter-mile mark Correlation was fifth, Fisherman sixth, both saving strength for the homestretch move. Both made the move together rounding the final turn. At that stage Willie gave the California colt just one crack with his bat. "When I hit him," said Willie afterward, "he took...
...baseball season. But before the first official threw out the first ball, they had to listen to hard-selling plugs for Chesterfields and National Bohemian, Valley Forge and Hamm's beer. Beer and cigarettes are today as much a part of the league and the national game as bat and ball. Few announcers call a home run a home run: it is a "Ballantine blast" or a "White Owl wallop." Sponsors have not only moved in on the game itself, they have also lined up pre-game and post-game programs-mostly interviews with players. In Chicago, there...
...reduced to a half-forgotten childhood game. Someone stretched a cord across one of the manor corridors, and, so the story goes, a couple of lackadaisical wine-bibbers discovered that they still had energy enough to stick a crest of goose quills into a champagne cork. They began to bat the cork back & forth across the cord with empty bottles. Suddenly the party came to life. The makeshift net added a fascinating new dimension to the old game. Battledore and shuttlecock, that gloomy day in 1873, became badminton...
...Amid Bats & Frogs. Only 28 woods walkers set forth the next morning; it was snowing, and the thermometer stood in the 303. At one point, the party had to feel its way through an echoing, three-quarter-mile, bat-hung tunnel with water dripping down its collective neck. At another point, they felt their way along the face of a rock wall, stepping on a 6-in. plank held in place by ancient iron spikes. But eventually the sun came out. Robins flew up from the sycamore branches; the call of the titmouse came clearly from nearby fields. Spice bushes...
Another delegation pounced upon Philip and presented him with a cricket bat and a pair of crutches. Later the Duke and Queen Elizabeth II, both inoculated as a precaution with some of the first Australian-produced gamma globulin, went by train to northern Victoria, where a polio outbreak has cropped...