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...spring training's halfway point, most of the wartimers were going down, the oldtimers were coming up; and a half dozen flashy rookies were having both ups & downs. One little slip by any one of the trio of Wakefield, Mullin and McCosky. and a well-muscled youngster named Hoot Evers* would make Detroit's outfield. (But Evers himself slipped this week, fractured his ankle, will be out for about eight weeks.) Dick Sisler, who hits the ball farther but not as often as his famous father, was trying to catch the Cardinals' Ray Sanders off first base...
Jake's 1946 team has been largely without honor in its own town. Their team play is intermittently sloppy, and occasionally they go in for grandstanding. Madison Square Garden crowds and sportswriters frequently hoot them. But Jake's second-half wonders, led by eagle-eyed Sid Tanenbaum, go on throwing the ball around a lot, and winning games...
...characteristically, Webster disagrees with the critics who think today's sexed-up, thrill-happy comics are a menace to adolescent morals. Says he : "I used to hide my dime novels. Eventually I made the discovery that good books were better. I don't think it matters a hoot." The Quiet Life. During the 1920s Webster was a member in good standing of that ultra-American generation of writers and actors and cartoonists and illustrators which focused around the offices of the World and The Players and The Dutch Treat Clubs. He has long since receded to the blander...
...Hoot for Hooton
...Hell. The situation had become almost a national scandal. The majority of the war-working U.S. didn't give a hoot for all the vacationers' sufferings. Rhode Island waxed so wroth over the stranded-tourist situation that its State Senate passed a resolution condemning Florida for withholding gas for return, trips. (Rhode Island's Governor J. Howard McGrath canceled a hard-won reservation at Miami Beach's swank Roney Plaza...