Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coupled with a four-man advance past the initial round in singles play last week, this week's matches now leave only nine decisions to be made before the second round roster is complete...
...first round matches were supposed to have been finished Wednesday but poor weather held up several that were scheduled. The tourney has been conducted on a self-regulatory basis and Fradd said last night that he expected contestants to go ahead with the next round play if conditions were suitable. The third round deadline is August 27 and fourth August...
...dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered in Robinson's drive -barely off the grass. The fans gasped, then burst into a cheer. They cheered again the next time Harry Walker came to bat. Whatever his play might cost Brooklyn, it was a beauty...
Harry Walker's circus catch was not a grandstand play. After an attack of spinal meningitis in the Army three years ago, he was so stiff that doctors doubted he could ever play major-league ball again. He is still so stiff that he cannot make shoestring catches. But by applying base-running technique to his ball-chasing, he manages to be one of the most spectacular fielders in the game. Last week he was doing more than that for Ben Chapman's last-place Phillies: with a .344 average, he was leading both leagues in hitting...
...intrepid clipper skipper braving a typhoon singlehanded; the terror of the Luftwaffe and the toast of the R.A.F.; a coldly insolent, julep-sucking riverboat gambler; the surgeon who takes over when all seems lost and is soon able to say, "Don't cry, little girl, your brother will play the violin again." And in every one of these heroic visions the same lovely blonde (Virginia Mayo) is on hand to worship...