Word: limbers
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That was the main message following all the hoopla at the Houston Astrodome last week. The putative Battle of the Sexes turned out to be one more sorry chapter in the story of the ancient struggle between sclerotic age and limber youth. In three straight sets that lasted 2 hr. 5 min., Billie Jean King, 29, the pride of women's tennis, briskly dispatched Robert Larimore Riggs, the huckster who had hustled the world of spectator sportsmen into believing that you really can go home again...
Ever since the ancient Indian game was introduced in Baltimore, it has been as much a local institution as crab cakes and H.L. Mencken. Each spring the city's schoolboys break out their lacrosse sticks the way kids in other cities limber up with Louisville Sluggers. At Johns Hopkins, foremost of the more than 100 U.S. colleges now competing in the sport, lacrosse is the No. 1 athletic attraction, drawing twice as many spectators as football and basketball combined. Thus it is no surprise that the Blue Jays enter the first round of the N.C.A.A tournament this week with...
Time was when the first sound of spring was the solid thwack of bat meeting ball, as major league baseball play ers gathered at sunny Southern retreats to limber up for the coming season. In recent years, that traditional ceremony has been muffled by noisy arguments about binding arbitration, boycotts and walkouts. Last year the players staged a 13-day strike that caused the cancellation of 86 regular season games. This year, just before preseason work outs were scheduled to begin, the team owners struck back by refusing to open the training camps. No ballplaying, said the moneymen - not until...
...only because of the youthful, limber bodies of the Jeffrey dancers, Weewis is often lovely to look at. But like so much other contemporary choreography, it is limited in its impact to fleeting moments. Logic, emotional consistency and meaning are sacrificed to shallow audience appeal...