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...also possible, McInnis said, that Clasby will win a starting role in the outfield against left-handed pitching. A right-handed swinger, he would replace either Bob Smith or Ralph Robinson, both of whom bat from the other side of the plate...
...Cobb; he was a perfectionist of the diamond, a picture player in the Frank Chance tradition. No catch ever looked tough, the way Joe loped up and cradled it. No stance at the plate-bat poised and feet widespread-was ever so widely imitated. None could match the easy swinger who banged out 361 homers, played on ten world championship teams...
Last week he laced his shots toward selected spots-to the right of the caddy, then to the left, then beyond. It was the same grim ritual on the putting green, the part of golf that the swinger in Hogan still dislikes. Says he: "Putting is foreign to the rest of the game. One of them should be called golf and the other something else." He put in long practice "tapping" the ball (for short putts) and "rolling" it (for long ones). Then he took a practice spin around Riviera's 18-hole championship course...
Ella Logan, ballad swinger on a U.S.O. swing through Europe, broke out (in Darmstadt, Germany) with a blast at fraternization, which looked to her like a Hitler dream-fulfillment. "Having gotten rid of a good part of the German male population, which normally would keep the population down," she reasoned, "I don't see why our boys should step into their shoes in that department...
...sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie Nation made a whirlwind campaign to woo the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles (full) to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal. She had heard that...