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...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...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Nine Forming in Hothouse Climate | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Pair of Jacks | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...Toledo had a deadly two-handed overhand set-shot artist; diagnosis showed that rushing him as soon as he made an upward motion upset his timing by a split second-all that was necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball's Secret Service | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...passed the New York bar examinations last year. On the mound, Nahem has the cunning of a prosecuting attorney. His best ball is a slider (a deceptive fast ball that sneaks up on the batter, then suddenly slides away from his bat). He throws his curves both sidearm and overhand: sidearm to right-handed hitters, overhand to lefties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slaughter & Co. | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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