Word: southpaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somebody asked him what a ham-&-egg artist is. The President illustrated it with a southpaw pitch, as if throwing something at an imaginary canvas. Their paintings, he said, look as if they stood off and threw...
Later he teamed with Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor against Maryland's Millard Tydings and Arkansas' J. William Fulbright at pitching horseshoes. The Missouri southpaw's side lost, 20-to-21. A seaplane brought official papers for the President. He sat under a poplar tree, read them, signed some. Then he went inside. There was a poker game in full blast and three tables of continuous bridge...
...Kazoo" finals it came in handy against Southpaw Bernard ("Tut") Bartzen, runner-up to Falkenburg last year. Tut learned to play the game by going up against a bangboard daily in the little Texas town of San Angelo, where competition was nonexistent, so he was used to seeing his best efforts returned. Flam's disconcerting returns earned him the title...
...Southpaw Slugger Ott says he never stopped to figure out what makes him a great hitter. He thinks maybe it's timing or coordination. There is no mystery about the times when Ott strikes out, pops up or dribbles to an infielder; generally it means that the pitcher has outguessed him, and sneaked in a fast ball when Mel was set for a curve or vice versa...
...reason why the Yankees stayed in the pennant race was apple-cheeked Hank Borowy (won 8, lost 2), with help from Swampy Donald and Floyd Bevens (they had nine wins between them, four defeats). Detroit had the best southpaw in the business, Lefty Hal Newhouser (9-4), with three stalwarts to lick him up. Also comfortably ahead of their bat ting competition: the Athletics' tall, thin submariner, Russ Christopher (10-2); Washington's knuckleballer Dutch Leon...