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Bobo Finds One. Every rawboned, greenhorn pitcher who straggled in from the bushes was being compared with Walter Johnson; every ham-handed hitter was a potential Babe Ruth. At Orlando, Fla., Old Pitcher "Bobo" Newsom got in on the talent hunt. He strolled into the Washington Senators' camp with a rookie named Rufe Leonard in tow. Said Bobo modestly: "I don't say he'll be the fastest left-handed pitcher in the American League, because I'm not quite sure he can throw harder than Newhouser. . . ." Last week, Rufe steamed his smoke ball past bewildered...
...rope. Suddenly beneath his feet the snow and ice had vanished, a deep crevasse was open. We got him up, just like that, in a moment. I was surprised to see that he still had my ice ax firmly in his hand. ... It is rare that a greenhorn has such presence of mind. I'm tired like...
...planned part of her function as a training ship. Conway boys were meant to learn seamanship without the help of modern conveniences, and the heavy old cannon that still glowered through the square gun ports were part of a boy's lessons in naval history. To the greenhorn the Conway also looked grimly bare - until he discovered that in exactly ten minutes her crew could let down canvas walls, swing out hundreds of folding desks, blackboards and benches, and turn her decks into floating classrooms for 800 boys...
...Missouri flows by Confederate Gulch and Montana Bar in the Big Belt Mountains. Exiled to the mountains during the Civil War, Confederate prisoners went prospecting. When the gold rush began, a greenhorn asked a bearded old prospector where he should dig. The old man spat, pointed to the least likely-looking place he could see, and said, "Try that bar yonder." The greenhorn scooped up panfuls of clean gold...
...Such conditions as the author describes may be peculiar to one yard and, I suspect, may have been magnified out of proportion by an uninformed and mechanically unintelligible "greenhorn...