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...Central's huge debt, step up modernization. But he could not hope to get quick control of Central unless 1) Central's present directors submitted, 2) ICC added its blessing. Last week Central's directors were seriously thinking of making Young board chairman right off the bat...
...workout yesterday on chilly Soldiers Field was the first time the entire team performed anywhere except in the Stygian gloom of Briggs Cage. Some weeks ago, the coach allowed his outfield to get some pasturage, but yesterday's session was the first opportunity Varsity players have had to bat against a normal background, and to study the intricate gyrations a baseball can perform on natural turf...
...only a training-camp game, but the big, rawboned rookie was understandably nervous. By acclamation, U.S. sport writers had made Clint Hartung the prize rookie of the year. Before his turn at bat last week in Phoenix, Ariz., he squatted down, twice picked up a handful of dirt to dry his sweating palms. Then Clint Hartung stepped to the plate for his first game in a New York Giant uniform...
...Texas farm boy felt on the spot, and showed it-at bat, by swinging at bad balls; in the outfield (where the Giants are trying him, instead of as a pitcher), by misjudging fly balls. He also showed a tendency to go for a line drive with his head averted, and a disinclination to block a bouncing ball the way all good outfielders do-with his body as well as his glove...
...news spread to Haifa. Thousands stopped work and swarmed angrily toward Bat Galim. They passed Barclay's Bank Building, shattered by a bomb soon after the ship's interception (two Jews were killed). Then they ran into tough, maroon-bereted British paratroopers, who barred their way. Jews and soldiers traded insults. Then the Jews went away into the dusk of Sabbath eve. Four hours after the first encounter aboard the Arlosoroff the fight went out of the immigrants on the ship...