Word: southpaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affliction, deterioration of the retina, that has given all three of his brothers faint vision. While playing tag in the framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he fell two stories to the concrete foundation, suffered nothing worse than a fractured and permanently stiffened left elbow. A natural southpaw, he had to learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity at Yale. Despite his damaged arm, he enlisted in the Army in 1918, lying about...
...tennis star of consistent world championship caliber since Pancho Gonzales began to play for pay in 1949. Furthermore, the raids of Pro Promoter Jack Kramer on Australia's crack performers have lopped off amateur stars as fast as they emerged. Three years ago an erratic, second-string southpaw named Neale Fraser was ranked well behind Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, was later overshadowed by Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper. But with all four lured away by Kramer, Fraser was left as Australia's best. Yet last week Fraser had little trouble blazing his way to the finals with...
...little competition for the varsity, except for the opening minutes of each half. Williams took 12 plays to march 70 yards for a touchdown, with most of the gains coming on three long passes. The Crimson pass defense showed many of the weaknesses that plagued it last season, and southpaw quarterback John Whitney tossed frequently and accurately into uncovered areas...
From the first inning on. the San Francisco Giants were straggling back from the plate with their bats dragging. By the middle innings, the crowd of 82,794 at Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum was beginning to realize that the husky (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) Dodger southpaw might be heading for a record. Out on the mound, Sandy Koufax, 23, wiped away sweat and bore grimly down with each pitch, firing a fast ball that hopped as though magnetized, a crackling curve that dipped down...
...that other city across the Hudson are among the hottest ball teams in the League. Before running into a 12-3 clobbering at the hands of Cornell last week, Columbia had reeled off seven consecutive victories, including three League triumphs, behind the stout pitching of righty Wally Bernson and southpaw Frank Pepe...