Word: elbowings
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...batter's box, he coils into a carbon copy of St. Louis' Stan Musial. His stance is closed, his right knee is slightly bent, and he scowls at the pitcher over a high-cocked elbow. When he unwinds, his swing is level and lightning-quick. His reflexes are so fast that even bad balls become good targets. In his first time at bat in a major league game, Boston Rookie Carl Yastrzemski sliced an outside fast ball into leftfield for a single. Next game against the Los Angeles Angels, he drove in two runs, hit a single...
...across the road, nipped at the racers' heels, and stubbornly eluded state troopers who tried to lure him off the course. At the 16-mile mark, the mongrel charged at Oksanen, who swerved suddenly and caused Kelley to trip and fall. Sprawled on the road with a skinned elbow and knee, a bleeding hand and a grit-stained face, Kelley got a helping hand from Fellow Runner Fred Norris, 39, a British coal miner turned student at McNeese State College in Lake Charles, La. Said Kelley: "That was a great show of sportsmanship." Said Norris. who never managed...
...Kerr responded in print with a riposte that made Merrick look like 44 kinds of fool, or roughly six short of the mark. "She likes me, that crazy girl," wrote Kerr. "Surely, Mr. Merrick, someone, somewhere, has liked you well enough to give you a little dig in the elbow. No? Ah, well...
...week came a pack of TV and film stars to watch an exhibition of the latest fad in craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay) aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger, elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than a flip over the shoulder. Karate is now taught in more than 50 schools across the U.S., has an estimated 50,000 practitioners. But nowhere has it caught on more solidly than in Hollywood, where disciples...
...gets upset when he catches an accidental elbow in a scramble for a loose ball. Detroit's Walt Dukes (7 ft., 220 lbs.) has the sharpest elbows in the league, beats a painful tattoo on the heads of friend and foe alike. Used intentionally, however, the elbow can be a far more effective weapon than a punch. Says one coach on the ethics of elbowing: "It's perfectly all right for me to belt someone if he flagrantly holds me repeatedly when we're not fighting over the ball...