Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't have asked for better pitching, "said the coach. "Both Wallace and Reilley pitched wonderful ball games. Of course, we'll have another crack at Princeton this Saturday up here in Cambridge...
...game. With two down in the seventh, an Ell runner in an second, and the Crimson ahead 3 to 2, a conference between pitcher Johnny Hansen, Coach Moe Berg, and catcher Frank Crosby decided that it was the better part of something to walk second baseman Tippet for a crack at Nadherny. The Bull tagged the first pitch to deep right-center for a line triple and the ball game. According to Crosby, Tippet was a great hitter at Andover...
Early one morning last week, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was chuffing through the Juniata River Gap, west of Huntingdon, Pa. A heavy steel plate broke loose from its lashing on a flatcar, swung out wide. The P.R.R.'s crack New York-to-St. Louis American was passing on the adjoining track. The steel nicked the engine, scraped three mail and baggage cars, then slashed murderously into the side of a coach. Sleeping passengers were hurled, dazed and bleeding, into the aisle. Another plate toppled over to the opposite track into the path of an eastbound freight, derailed...
Columnist Herb Caen knew the usual trade practice: brag about your right guesses, if any, and maybe nobody will notice the others. One day last week he devoted his entire daily space in the San Francisco Chronicle to a recital of his April errors. Sample error: that fine little crack about the canned peas served at the national frozen-food convention banquet had been run without checking; and it just wasn't so. Caen promised to continue "Writing the Wrongs" once a month. "In the course of hacking together 20 or 25 items a day," he explained...
...week switchman on the Brooklyn Bridge, Andy Varipapa used to jog back & forth across the bridge every day to develop his legs. In the finals of a recent Chicago tournament, 16 crack bowlers had to roll a grueling 64 games in four days. Varipapa, though 53, was the only one to finish without sore muscles. Despite his chunkiness his arms are sinewy, his wrists powerful, his legs hard. Volatile as he is, Varipapa rarely loses his temper during a match. Says he: "Sometimes I get mad when the ball hits the pins the right way and they...