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...performances. Only Coach Jim Kelly was unperturbed, and last week reports from Melbourne about warmup sessions proved him correct. Minnesota's Fortune Gordien ambled out to the practice field and spun his discus in a casual. 195-ft. toss that bettered his own world record. California's Cy Young, holder of the 1952 Olympic javelin mark (242 ft. ¾ in.), broke that record by flinging his spear...
Unlike modern games, where dozens of new balls are used in nine innings, the games of the memorable days of Cy Young and Rube Waddell, Rube Marquard and Jeff Tesreau and Ed Cicotte used the same ball inning after inning. Batters pounded it until it was brown and hard to see, pitchers doctored its horsehide; everything was stacked against the hitter (everything, that is, except for the occasional inspirations of such oldtimers as the pre-World War I Phillies' Otto Knabe and Mike Doolan, who once broke up a game with the Giants by swabbing the ball with capsicum...
...Only a handful have ever won 20 or more games for more consecutive seasons: Christy Mathewson, 12; Walter Johnson, 10; Lefty Grove, 7; and (counting some 19th century seasons) Cy Young...
...game with the late Connie Mack's Milwaukee club and was the first player to bat in the modern World Series; in Burlington, Wis. Playing centerfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ginger Beaumont stepped to the plate against the Boston Pilgrims' (now the Red Sox) famed Denton ("Cy") Young in the first (1903) Series game, flied...
Phil Haughey's hook shot at 16:35 gave the home team a 44-42 edge, its last lead of the game, as Cy Anfindson sank two foul shots at 16:55 and Tom Hart caged a short hook at 17:15 to put Middlebury ahead, 46 to 44. Frantic shooting by the Crimson could not shake the lead...