Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been taking their lumps on the pitching mound, Bob Grim, Eddie Ford, Harry Byrd, Tom Morgan and Jim McDonald have turned in 50 victories among them. Mantle, Noren and Skowron are living up to advance billing and outhitting such veterans as Woodling and Collins. Now, in the stretch sprint, the Yankees will face teams that have been their cousins all season. If they take up their old, winning ways, professional Yankee haters will begin to worry that Casey Stengel will take his sixth pennant...
...British Empire Games, the highly favored Aussies got off to a slow start. Trinidad's Mike Agostini (a student at Pennsylvania's Villanova College) whipped Australia's Hector Hogan (co-world-record holder) in the 100-yd. dash, tying the Games record with a 0:9.6 sprint...
...field, however, Willie was content to be just Willie. DiMag, with his effortless ground-eating lope, made the hard ones look easy. Willie, with his jackrabbit sprint and his flashy, breadbasket catch, made even the high, arcing flies that fielders call "cans of corn" look hard. Willie could break a batter's heart with astonishing, acrobatic saves. Everything he did in the field he did instinctively well...
...weekday afternoon recently, Vanderbilt and Winfrey sent the Dancer out for his 1954 debut?a six-furlong sprint...
...mile marker the Badgers took a "power ten" which jockeyed them to within half a length of the Crimson bow, but they were unable to stay up and slipped back to nearly a full length behind until the sprint...