Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch the youngster play semipro ball in the Idaho-Oregon Border League. Killebrew promptly went 14-for-14 (five homers, four triples), belted one homer over a fence 435 ft. away. The tightfisted Senators unbuckled their bankroll, paid out $30,000, and Killebrew became Washington's first bonus player...
...Harlem Globetrotters, towering (7 ft. 2 in.) Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain,22, two-time All-America at the University of Kansas (1957, 1958), signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Association. His salary-more than $30,000-makes Chamberlain the highest-paid player in N.B.A. history...
...nimble without being frantic. Occasionally, Mattress' comic reach exceeds its grasp and good taste e.g., a scene in which the mute king tries to mime the facts of life for his son. But when the evil queen finally brings the fabled pea to her lips in a dice player's frenzied kiss, it is an unconscious reminder of how much of the evening is a delightful streak of playgoing luck...
Michael Graney '60, of Leverett House and Norwood, Mass., was awarded the Angier Hockey Trophy at a recent informal meeting of the hockey squad. The trophy is presented annually to the player showing the greatest improvement during the season...
...John Tudor trophy for the team's most valuable player was given to Richard S. Fischer '59, of Leverett House and Buffalo, N.Y. This season Fischer scored 30 goals from his position at center. Together with fellow team member George Higginbottom, he expects to try out next year for the United States Olympic team...