Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual batting, Walt Coulson, at .333, is still the only Varsity player above .300. Coulson's average is tenth highest in the league. Hilly Barron, whose four for four performance against Cornell hoosted him to .286, and Billy Fitz (.250) follow Conlson...
...bench sat Judge James Robert Martin Jr. A strapping onetime Washington & Lee football player, Judge Martin, at 37, is known all over South Carolina as a firm, fair man. He made it plain from the beginning that he would stand for no nonsense...
...Columbus, Ohio, Frank Lane, president of baseball's American Association, ruled that a baseball player can swear at an umpire if the profanity 1) is used in a casual manner, 2) is not heard in the stands, and 3) does not cause the ump to lose his self respect...
Last year, directing The Razor's Edge, he objected to the music written for a Montmartre café scene. He whistled a new tune, which was picked up by a studio accordion player and transcribed for orchestra. The studio got 5,000 letters asking about the song. After that Tin Pan Alleyman Mack Gordon wrote a slushy verse to go with Goulding's mushy tune...
...rear of the batter's box, crouching forward with a ready-to-pounce stance, putting a lot of body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours in the batting cage...