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...right-handed hitter, Jackie has a habit of swinging too soon and his motion is half chop, 'half lunge. As a result, he fouls off a lot of balls to the left. But his batting average at week's end was a solid .301. The wise boys who judge a hitter by his Runs Batted In totals are apt to take too fast a look at Jackie's R.B.I, and grumble that Jackie can't hit in a tight spot. But as the club's No. 2 hitter in the lineup, Jackie...
That night-July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
...steel wheel 3½ inches in diameter, with 80 square teeth around its edge. It spins against a thick steel disc drilled with 80 small holes arranged in a circle to match the 80 teeth. Compressed air rushes through these holes. When the wheel revolves, its teeth chop the air into pulses; each pulse becomes a sound wave...
Rowing downstream to counteract a strong wind and quartering chop, the Crimson jumped into an immediate lead and breezed over the one-mile course to win going away, with two lengths of open water between them and Tech. Stroke Julian Roosevelt settled into a smooth 32 beat which left the Engineers behind...
Skiing was not the only exercise required of the schussmen over the weekend, as they were compelled to chop down trees to replace the guide flags buried by the avalanche...