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Rooters will find a strong pitching staff to cheer about, however. Groper, tomorrow's starter, has a smooth overhand curve and excellent control. Left-handed Dave Lanier has both a fine curve and a good fast ball. Cooke, another lefty, also shows promise...
Besides Seaga, Stuart will also play Gehangiar Magaseth of India, one of the better bowlers in the group. A bowler is a cricket team's pitcher. The bowler, however, is not permitted to bend his arm, and consequently must deliver the ball with a peculiar overhand twist...
Champion Mills, a Dorset man with a huge head and bushy black hair, came lunging across the ring at the bell. He started throwing punches to the body. Then he threw a long overhand left with a discus thrower's motion; it crunched into Maxim's face and almost ended the fight. But Joey covered up and held...
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...