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...palm of his hand downward. Meaning: cool it, baby. Though he started haltingly, Graebner soon found his booming serve and defeated Australian Bill Bow-rey 8-10, 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 6-1. Ashe, as calm and poised as a man taking his morning constitutional, kept Southpaw Ray Ruffels puffing all over the court with his threadneedle forehand shots. Though he had to serve at three-quarter speed because of an ailing elbow, Ashe won handily 6-8, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. As expected, Smith and Lutz downed the team of Ruffels and Teeny-Lobber John...
...Unknown Southpaw...
When the relatively unknown southpaw took the mound against powerful Navy in April 1962, Coach Norm Shepherd was not overly-optimistic about Del Rossi's ability to master the defending Eastern Intercollegiate champions...
Somehow the Terriers got the ball down to Hayes again, and the slick southpaw sliced in for another bucket at the two-second mark. A last gasp desperation hook by Grate fell short...
With the baseball season in full swing, there is nothing particularly noteworthy about a southpaw on the mound. A southpaw on the podium, however, is another matter. And this rare breed, in the person of Joel Lazar, is what confronted the eighty players and three dozen singers assembled on the Sanders stage last evening. Yet, despite the brevity of their acquaintance with him, those who were bowing and blowing and crowing seemed to have readily overcome being nonplussed by a baton brandished in the let hand...