Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department, Manager Casey Stengel had been getting smooth, workmanlike performances from his big four: Ed Lopat, Allie Reynolds, Vic Raschi and Tommy Byrne. Unlike other managers of pennant contenders, Stengel had not been forced to use his starting pitchers in relief to save close games. His ace in the hole for relief work was Tom Ferrick, bought from the St. Louis Browns in June. Righthander Ferrick, 35 and no great shakes with a second-division club, has become the Yankees' 1950 Joe Page. In 18 appearances on the mound for them he has won seven games, saved seven others...
Stranahan soon got to know him well. Nearly three-quarters of the time during their 39-hole match, muscleman Stranahan found that he had been outdriven. Four times, Stranahan pulled even. But Frank could never get ahead...
...39th* hole, Stranahan sliced his drive out of bounds and it was all over. Sam, who takes his athletic conditioning almost as seriously as Stranahan (no smoking or drinking), celebrated his victory with a glass of ginger ale spiked with lemon. Said Sam: "I won this tournament for my brother Joe. I really mean it. He was killed fighting in Germany with the 8th Division. He was a greater golfer than I'll ever...
...twelve paintings were black, white, grey and brown recollections of Manhattan gin mills and restaurants that Luks patronized shortly after the turn of the century: Luchow's, Paddy the Pig's, Mouquin's, Carey's Hole in the Wall. There was not a Man of Distinction...
...been a physical and mental ordeal beyond my powers to describe") to Correspondent Frank Conniff of Hearst's New York Journal-American, which splashed it across Page One-as did other Hearst papers. Churchill, who also got back under his own power, had a half-dollar-sized hole in his shin. But he calmly dictated a smooth, well-told story of the patrol to the Associated Press's Hal Boyle, to be sent on to his paper. By his notable lack of heroics, Reporter Churchill won back the regard of correspondents who had been offended by his toplofty...