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Just two weeks later, on a rain-soaked course at Silverstone, England, things were different. There were no long, straight stretches on which Fangio's Mercedes could wind up to top speed, and Gonzalez took his cat-quick Ferrari across the finish line in front. This week, at Niirburgring. Germany, Fangio faced much the same problem. On the tight, twisting course where he and his competitors would have to shift gears some 10,000 times as they swung through 3.828 curves (174 per lap), the straightaways were too short for the Silver Arrow to show its full power...
...worldwide sport. But the badminton they played was a far cry from the impromptu pastime dreamed up by the Duke of Beaufort's friends. And as if to prove that the game is not the private property of English gentlemen any more, Eddie Choong, 23, a cat-quick little (5 ft. 4 in.) Malayan, bounded away with the American Badminton Association's singles championship...
...Cat-quick, Pudge was the first guard in football history to run offensive interference; on defense, Pudge favored an almost upright stance, disdaining to crouch. "Take it from me," he maintained, "a man is no good on his knees." Pudge made Walter Camp's first All-America team in 1889, made it again the next two years. At Yale, Pudge's teams, playing a 13-to 16-game schedule, won 53 and lost two (to Princeton and Harvard). The two defeats rankled in the heart of Pudge Heffelfinger until the day he died, at his home in Blessing...
...everybody acknowledged the overall speed of the Lancias, their tremendous acceleration, their cat-quick cornering ability. Last fall they swept from one end of Mexico to the other to finish 1-2-3 in the Mexican road race, with an average speed of 105.1 m.p.h. for the winning Lancia. What was in question was the Lancias' ability to survive a twelve-hour endurance test, without a chance for major repairs, over a 5.2-mile course, with tantalizingly brief straightaways and curves...
Since then, though many have challenged, no one has managed to come close to beating the cat-quick little man who can hit the heavy cloth-covered ball with devastating power as well as delicate finesse. Pierre wants to quit while he is ahead: "It is a matter of prestige, you understand. It is for the record. It is for 26 years." Will he ever play competitively again? Pierre smiles. "I will perhaps play an exhibition with the new champion . . . Maybe two or three years from...