Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he opened Santa Anita 15 years ago, Strub sent aides to scout the eastern tracks and report in detail what was wrong with them. The findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...
Forkballs & Sliders. Dr. Hyland, a frustrated ballplayer himself, resents any suggestion that the present-day frequency of "elbow chips" and bone growths means that players are less durable than of old. Says Doc, who often talks the way sport-writers write: "Today's crop is obviously better educated and, if anything, up to a faster type of baseball. The culprit in the injury woodpile is the development of trick pitching...
Most of his baseball patients are pitchers. To keep pace with improved batting techniques, pitchers throw an assortment of forkballs, knuckle balls, screwballs and sliders. "Try it yourself and feel the strain on your elbow," says Dr. Hyland. His commonest operation-removing calcium deposits from elbows-made new men of Pitchers Howie Pollet and Red Munger. The list of patients who have consulted him would make an impressive line-up for an All-Star game. Among them: Ty Cobb (one of his steadiest customers), Frank Frisch, Rogers Hornsby, Joe Cronin, Mel Ott, Bobby Doerr...
Cold weather ended outdoor rowing last week, and forced the retreat to Newell. The tank, set in the middle of a large pool, is similar to a shell. Thus an athlete can keep on learning the fundamental techniques of rowing with the coaches at his elbow to point out just how it's done...
...staid khaki pants worn by Harvard football players for generations have now gone the way of such venerable football lore as handlebar mustaches and leather elbow patches...