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Bench jockeys heckled him from across the diamond and shirtsleeved kibitzers shouted advice from the stands, but the burly, ruddy man alongside the Cincinnati bat rack gave no sign that he heard. The center-field Scoreboard reminded him that he was a front runner in a National League pennant race so close that the loss of a single game might mean the difference between first place and fourth, but beyond pawing abstractedly at his red-sleeved uniform shirt, he appeared unmoved. All week long, alone in the shouting crowd with his furious concentration, the Redlegs' Manager George Robert ("Birdie...
...ninth inning of a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Johnny Temple, Cincinnati Redleg second baseman, let a hot grounder sizzle through his legs, looked up to see the Scoreboard flash "error." and began a slow burn. After the Redlegs lost in the 11th, 3-2. Temple spotted the official scorer, Sportswriter Earl Lawson, in the clubhouse. "What was I supposed to do with that ball?" snapped Temple. "Shove it in my ear?" Said Lawson: "Grow up, John." Temple started swinging. The brief fracas cost Lawson one black eye. Temple a temper-cooling $100 fine...
After the semifinal round of the 21st annual Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, Samuel Jackson Snead, 44, sneaked a look at the scoreboard and started with surprise. "You mean to tell me that ah shot a 74 and ah'm still leading this tournament?" drawled the balding West Virginian. "Man that must be a pitiful poor field out there...
...Scoreboard ¶Australia's Murray Rose, the 17-year-old, flipper-footed food faddist who trains on seaweed jelly and experiments with hypnotism, churned 440 yds. at the New-South Wales swimming championships in a world record 4:27.1, passed the 400-meter mark on the way in a world record 4:25.9. When he caught his breath. Rose announced that he would visit the U.S. in the spring "to look around some universities," but admitted that Yale's ubiquitous swimming coach, Bob Kiphuth, had already all but sold him on the beauties of New Haven...
...embarrassments. But the worldwide contest of men against men, against time and against records, was under way despite wars and tensions. Competitors who had traveled half around the world to test their grace and strength and speed and skill looked up at a bold, white sign on the big Scoreboard and smiled at its airy warning: "Classification by points on a national basis is not recognized." When a man wears his country's colors in competition, beating an opponent takes on added meaning; individual competitors, intent on winning an individual championship, may be too busy to keep score...