Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rookies, the rest of the Giant team looks solid. First Baseman Cepeda, 21, a big, amiable Puerto Rican, broke in last year with a .312 batting average, 25 home runs, 96 runs batted in ("I butcher in field," he says, "but you forget bad field when I hit"). Catcher Bob Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop, Andre Rodgers, 24, a onetime Bahamas cricket player...
Alias Jesse James (Hope Enterprises; United Artists), for moviegoers who have almost given up Hope, is a pleasant surprise: a Bob Hope farce that is actually funny, and sometimes downright hilarious. Comic Hope is cast as "the world's worst insurance agent," a 19th century nincompoop who caps his career by writing a $100,000 insurance policy for a man who avers that he is "well known in railroad and banking circles." Only later does Hope realize that he has insured the life of the nation's No. 1 public enemy: Jesse James (Wendell Corey...
...other promising players, new to the game are Freshman football captain Bill Swinford, Bill Desloge, Bob Mautz, and Bob Bland...
...Engineers, coached by Bob Whitelaw, will take the field against the Crimson at 3 p.m., weather permitting. Rain is forecast for the afternoon, and there is considerable doubt about the chances of playing...
Twenty men are out for the Varsity team and 15 for the Yardling squad. The coaches will trim these numbers to ten each by Saturday, April 18. Frank Dodge, Bob Grundeman, Jim Noble, and Fisk Warren are the strongest Varsity players, while Bob David, Allan Lipsky, Alan Locker, Dick Riley, and Bill Rose provide excellent support...