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...very tip of the spearhead, cocky, harddriving, but an expert tanker, rides Staff Sergeant Steve Cochran, a Southern mountain boy who speaks as if his mouth were always full of grits and corn pone. The story, makes what it can out of Cochran's constant friction with his men, who are predictably slow to recognize his true worth...
...first hole (par five). Burkemo, also well-placed, was in line for a birdie. He got it, too. Then Snead, taking dead aim from the fringe of the green, chipped into the cup for an eagle three. "After that start," said Snead in his corn-pone drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K. Ah thought if a man can't win six up he oughta quit and go home." Sam won seven up. It was the handsomest winning margin since a newcomer named Sam Snead lost to Paul Runyan in the 1938 P.G.A...
...Corn pone...
...Cardinals' Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 20, tagged by sportwriters as "the lefthanded Dizzy Dean." In a pure corn-pone drawl, Vinegar explains his nickname: "Vinegar Bend, Mississippi [pop. about 75] is where ah gets mah mail.'' Signed as a barefoot prospect in nearby Leakesville, Miss. (pop. around 1,000) two years ago, Vinegar bounced up the Cardinal chain to Winston-Salem last year, where he won 17 games, struck out 227 batters in 207 innings. Cardinal Manager Marty Marion exults over his huge (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs.) pitcher: "He has the livest fast ball...
...season at Yale, the situation was quite different. The Elis had won five of their first seven games, the best season in Hickman's regime so far. Though Hickman (Tennessee '32) was no Old Blue, Yale liked him fine. The Yale Athletic Department also liked the corn-pone drawl in which Hickman had announced his coaching aim at New Haven: to win just enough games "to keep the alumni sullen but not mutinous." Though Hickman's five-year contract still had two years to run, Yale last week tore it up and handed...