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...Offseason Diversion. For all its violence, lacrosse has had a persistent appeal. Maryland tourists brought it home to Baltimore in the 1880s, and with evangelical fervor made their city the lacrosse capital of the nation. For years, the rosters of All-America teams have read like pages from the Baltimore phone book...
...rates. Pan Am wants to cut the present $395 one-way fare to $225, with a $405 round-trip rate. The other airlines and the CAB want a $265 one-way fare and $477 roundtrip. The proposed rates would also cut 25% from the round-trip fare during the offseason months when travel is lighter. On all tourist flights the airlines expect to carry about one-third more passengers (e.g., 82 on a DC-6B, 60 on a Constellation), charge passengers for meals and do away with such frills as a free bar and free overnight bags...
...Gold Trinkets. Kiner, who lives with his widowed mother in California in the offseason, spent three seasons in the minors (at Albany and Toronto), then went off to hunt enemy submarines as a Navy PBM pilot. In 1946, as a rookie with the Pirates, he led the National League in homers with 23. With some instruction from his roommate, Hank Greenberg (58 home runs with Detroit in 1938), he boosted his home-run production to 51 the following year-and his salary from $10,000 to $30,000. With that he could afford to buy his mother a new home...
...diamond, Luke likes flashy ties and clothes (last week he appeared in a green gabardine number), fat black cigars and dry Martinis. Balding and somewhat spavined but not fat, he has a wife and three children, an eleven-acre place in Georgia where he keeps in shape during the offseason and where he expects to "relax" when his baseball days are over, whenever that...
...Goalie Bill Durnan, practically assured of his fourth straight Vezina Trophy (for the goalie who averages the least goals per game). Last year he blocked all but 104 shots in 40 games. In front of Durnan is Les Canadiens' "bachelor defense"-rocklike Emile ("Butch") Bouchard, 26, an offseason beekeeper, and fiery Irishman Kenny Reardon, 25. Bachelor Bouchard plans to marry at season's end. Bachelor Reardon is the confessed favorite player of figure-skating champion Barbara Ann Scott...