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...past three years, New York Yankee fans have been treated to the rough & ready English of Dizzy Dean and the schoolboy precision of Joe DiMaggio, who even read his interviews from scripts. Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all: old-time Movie Comic Joe E. Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sporting Life | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...bill would authorize the Metropolitan District Commission to purchase the St. Botolph St. sports center for use by schoolboy and college athletic teams from all Metropolitan cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Private Owner Buys Boston Arena As Legislature Studies Repurchase | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

...McLane himself sees it, it was more of a catch-up than a comeback. Seven years ago, at 15, he was a national outdoor titleholder at distances ranging from 400 to 1,500 meters. At 17, as a crewcut, prep schoolboy (Andover), he became the Olympic 1,500-meter champion. But from then on, Jimmy McLane spent a good part of his swimming time gulping the backwash of such stars as Japan's Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish") Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Hawaii's Ford Konno. It was not because he slowed down; the others just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 Again | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

This career, far from arising as a result of a schoolboy dream, was launched by a basketball coach's chance remark. Lee, when playing on a club team at Exeter, was removed from the game because "he wasn't trying." At that moment Ted Seabrook, the wrestling coach, happened to be on the floor. Seeing the small but well be on the floor. Seeing the small but well built Lee, he suggested he come out for the wrestling team, where he could "compete with guys more his own size...

Author: By Walter W. Bregman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/24/1953 | See Source »

Undefeated in schoolboy competition, Chandler captained the Milton Academy team to a record of five wins, one less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Captain | 3/18/1953 | See Source »

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