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...first season with the Pirates, Hank was pretty much of a flop, even though Pittsburgh's left-field fence had been brought in closer to help him. But Greenberg bunked with young Kiner on road trips, talked while his protégé listened, practiced with him. On Hank's advice, Kiner stood closer to the plate, spread his feet a little more, learned to relax instead of freezing when the count got to two strikes against him. By August, Ralph Kiner had almost doubled his 1946 homer production (as a rookie last year he led the National...
Lifts & Luck. Besides Kramer, Coach Roche adopted just two other tennis protégés before going to Detroit to design new automobile gadgets. One was Ted Schroeder; the other was a youngster named Doug Woodbury, who died in an airplane crash...
...false moves, and even the choicest young prospect is expelled from the ranks of Southern California's youthful tennis elect. Perry Jones, who runs the region's amateur tennis (as secretary of the local tennis association), demands that his protégés get good marks in conduct and in book-learning both; they may some day be on display at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. Four years ago, the school's problem child was a talented Mexican-American lad of 15 who found both discipline and schoolwork distasteful. He cut classes at high school, finally dropped...
...time a Crum protégé reaches Allentown High, he should know the coach's system of "give-and-go" and "flooding the center-lane." Crum shows motion pictures to illustrate new plays, takes his players to Philadelphia to watch topnotch college teams. Before every game, a scout (who works at it full time) reports on the rival team's good & bad points. Last season 35,000 fans crammed into Allentown's gym to watch Crum's team...
...Prize protégé on this season's squad is ham-fisted Center Bill Wanish, who can hold a basketball in each hand palms down. In last week's game, Bill made 15 points. His No. 1 helper is Negro Elmo Jackson (ten points), a lightning-fast forward. Both Wanish and Jackson were regulars on Allentown's tricky T-formation football team, also coached by Crum, which has also won the Pennsylvania state championship for the past two years...