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...days of practice out on Soldiers Field have proved anything, it is that the squad will have to show a lot more power with a bat than it has so far if it wants to win games. Hitting has been weak, and intensive practice at the plate will be the order of the day from now until the Sunday embarkation...
...less than that. Last year, he struggled along on $43,750. The pay boost made DiMag the fanciest-salaried New York Yankee since Babe Ruth (who once drew $80,000) and put him in a class with baseball's two rich kids: Ted Williams, whose big bat is worth $75,000 a year to the Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland's $80,000-or-more-a-year pitcher, Bob Feller...
...spring, Round No. 3 would be going full blast. The C.I.O.'s two giants, the steelworkers and the autoworkers, would both go to bat on new contracts in April. The steelworkers' Phil Murray planned to drive hard for an annual wage. The autoworkers' Walter Reuther wanted a price roll-back,* but did not expect to get it. In Washington last week, Reuther said: "What we're after is not dollars but purchasing power. If industry and Congress keep on failing to reduce prices, we will fight on the only front open to us-wages...
...action is at the other end of the ice. This form of mass attack was formerly used only when a team was behind, or the enemy was shorthanded; now it is the accepted style of play. The trick is now to carry the puck up to midice, then bat it down in the general vicinity of the enemy goal, with everyone but the goalie scrambling after it. More goals are made: scores now read 5 to 4 instead of 2 to 1. This season, with a postwar crop of hockey pros developing, the shinny style is more popular than ever...
...Venezuela last week, Pitcher Saul Rogovin wished he were back home in Brooklyn. Pitching for the Venezuelan club, he walked the first four men at bat. The fans booed, the umpire threw him out of the game, the Venezuela club owner had him jailed for "not trying...