Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first half, the Dodgers surprised an apathetic crowd by holding the favored Yankees, last year's Eastern Division champs, and led 3-0 at half time. But in the Dodger locker room, Guard Tex Warrington passed out cold from the heat, Mickey Colmer fell on his face, and Hunchy Hoernschemeyer had to take smelling salts to get back on the field...
Their formula for success is as simple as a C scale. Says Sammy: "We make our songs easy to remember and easy to sing. That's what Americans like-songs the guy in the locker room and the woman in the farmhouse can sing without a piano...
Pampered Legs. At 23, Mel Patton looks fragile enough to be bowled over by the smell of locker-room sweat. But he has run the 100 yards faster than any man living or dead-in 9.3 seconds (an unofficial world's record). In the chow-line last week, a husky teammate yelled at him: ''Step aside and let us weight-men in. No fuss, now-you're the one man around here I can lick." Patton, grinning, yelled back: "Better be careful, Moose, I gained a pound last week...
...Beau was through as a battler-even if he wouldn't admit it. In the locker room after the fight, he muttered through swollen lips: "I'd like one more fight-I'd like to get Williams again." Beau's share of the gate - $13,671- wasn't much to retire on after his manager got through taking...
Like corpses in a morgue, track-&-field stars lay sprawled on benches in the locker room. They were trying to relax before the big test: the two-day tryouts to pick the three athletes in each event to "make the boat" for the XIV Olympiad. Making the boat (the S.S. America) for London this week didn't depend on how many world's records a man had set already; under the ironclad Olympic rules, the only thing that mattered now was how he did in Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium...