Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoulders rocking-creating the illusion that he will fly to pieces with every stride. But once he gains momentum, his shoulders come to order and his feet skim along like flying fish. He is not only jackrabbit fast, but about one thought and two steps ahead of every base-runner in the business. He beats out bunts, stretches singles into doubles. Once Jackie made second on a base-on-balls; he saw that the catcher had lost the ball, so he just kept on going...
...Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast and earned his cognomen "radar" as one of the leading pass-Interceptors in the country, and who this year shapes up as a potential runner and passer on the offense. Returning also are such capable performers, in the 1946 backfield as Leo Flynn, Paul Lazzaro, Jim Noonan, Paul Shafer, Bill Henry, and Frank Miklos...
Cartoonist Jack Lambert of the New Dealing Chicago Sun needled New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey with a sly "The Cat's Got His Tongue" (see cut). At the American Legion's convention last week, Front-Runner Dewey publicly endorsed universal military training, thus evoking from Legionnaire Harold E. Stassen the comment that it was nice to hear Mr. Dewey taking a stand on something...
...craft to the most impressive victory of the day and made himself the favorite for the final with a 3:32 clocking in the first heat. John Brewer, who trailed Queeny, also qualified, since there were only two heats. The winner of the other trial, John Bisbee, and his runner-up, L. W. Barroll, round out the novice singles finalists...
Dowd will doff his clerk-of-course appellation to challenge Day on the strength of his runner-up position last summer in a close meeting with Day as a lightweight oarsman...