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...Madison Square Garden. One of the principals, Dezso Ernster, the Met's new basso, spoke and sang English with a Hungarian accent so thick he could not be understood. Most of the others went at Mozart's trifle like a man swinging at thistledown with a baseball bat. Somewhere along the line someone had forgotten that Mozart's little Singspiel was a lightweight musical comedy to be treated no more grandly than Broadway's Annie Get Your...
Died. John A. Hillerich, 80, who in 1884 made the first "Louisville Slugger" baseball bat, later founded the famed Hillerich & Bradsby Co. which manufactures nearly all bats for the major and minor leagues (over 2,000,000 a year), for half a century has supplied baseball's great with tailor-made weapons; in Chicago...
...Bat-haunted and deserted for centuries, the mysterious limestone cities of the Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...
...mighty Theodore Samuel Williams who-mostly by not doing very well-was the most talked about man in the series. When he went to bat, the Cards shifted their infield men to the right. It was both a tribute to Williams' prowess as a right field hitter, and an insuring bet on his inability to hit anywhere else. Sure enough, he hit squarely into the concentrated St. Louis defense. Since Ted Williams is a moody, mulish sort of fellow, nobody knew for sure whether he couldn't or wouldn't hit to left. Fans asked two questions...
Mahout broke well and closely followed Alamond and School Tie for a quarter of a mile - to his favorite spot near the little stable road. There he stopped being conventional. Bolting towards the outside rail, he dug his four feet into the loam, and neither Arcaro's bat nor his backer's prayers could move him an inch...