Word: overhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams, who was voted 1948-8 "Fighter of the Year" by New York boxing writers, answered all questions in the first minute of the first round. He launched a whistling left that staggered Bolanos and drew blood from his mouth. In the second round, a jolting overhand right almost closed the challenger's left eye. Thereafter, Bolanos stumbled around the ring, as helpless against Williams as a matador fighting a bull with a knife & fork...
...Bring Players? For more advanced batting practice, Dodgertown had three mechanical pitching machines, supposed to throw the ball at just the desired speed and-over & over again-at just the right spot. The Dodgers called one "The Bazooka," another "Iron Mike," the third "Overhand Joe." Last week Rickey introduced still another gadget-"Big Inch," a gravity-feed pipeline into which outfielders tossed the ball after shagging long flies. "Big Inch" conducted the balls to a box near the batting cage, prevented a hail of return throws and saved the outfielder's arm for the throwing practice that would come...
...already starting to deplate Stuffy's manpower. Myles Huntington, regular second baseman last year, will be out for the season with a broken right collar bone suffered in the last Dartmouth hockey game; and left fielder Jim Kenary, who played against Yale last spring, is still unable to throw overhand because of a shoulder injury sustained last Summer. Add in the fact that Chip Gannon isn't playing this spring and you have two-thirds of the outfield wide open as well as the third base position. Gannon, a center fielder, won the Wingate Memorial Cup last year...
...serve sizzled over the net. Aggressive as ever, California's Kramer scrambled in behind his serve and put away shots with overhand smashes and light teasers. He still had one fault to work on: his forehand drives were floating instead of zipping. But he-beat Teammate Frank Parker in two quick sets and said, "Boy, it feels good to be hitting them again." If he kept on hitting them, he could spoil a big Christmas Week for confident, sport-crazy Australia...
From where he stands a lot of things look awful to Big Boss Leahy. "If I only had a breakaway back," he mourns, adding that Notre Dame this year will probably play a good deal of "Minnesota football''' (three yards at a crunch). Leahy prefers tricky overhand laterals and daring forwards with trade names like Banana, Swerve, Flair, Stop & Go, Rainbow...