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...jump for a righthanded, banked shot. Essentially, this is the shot a short man might take to overcome the height of his opponent, has the serious disadvantage of moving Chamberlain away from the rebound. Now Chamberlain is beginning to exploit his size and strength by bulling straight for the hoop, overpowering his man with a leap so high that he merely lets the ball roll off his palm for a sure basket...
...Ways. The rangy (6 ft. 8 in., 220 lbs.) forward with shock of wavy black hair held the ball lightly in his two ham-sized hands, then sent a set shot swishing through the hoop 28 ft. away. With that, Dolph Schayes, 31, of the Syracuse Nats last week became the first man in the history of the National Basketball Association to score 15,000 points. Before the game was over, he had raised his total to 15,013 as his team beat the Boston Celtics...
Gold Braid & Hoop Skirts. Author Basso. 54. is dealing with the same fictional South Carolina town that framed his 1954 bestseller. The View from Pompey's Head, which told of present-day passions in the Tidewater South. The events of this new book are laid a century earlier but. despite the gold braid uniforms and the hoop skirts, the idiom is racily contemporary (says high-born Arabella of a suitor: "All he wanted was a chance to get under my skirts...
...games as "scissors, paper, rock" or the passing of lighted tapers until they go out, to determine who must drink penalty cups of sake. When not being pinched or fondled by male guests, the modern geisha sings, plays the samisen or unexpectedly breaks into a rumba, spins a Hula Hoop or blows a saxophone...
Unable to hit the hoop from the floor during the entire second half, 'Cliffe basketball enthusiasts lost to Boston College, 27 to 23, yesterday afternoon in an extremely small, narrow...