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Allen, a minus 36 handicap player who practiced 45 hours each week this summer, used the Chinese penholder grip--thumb and index finger wrapped around the handle, with three fingers behind the paddle. His quick offensive strokes symied the Crimson...
...friend Hands explains: "The Bucks play, say the Braves, in Buffalo. The line is the Bucks and nine points, so you figure, it's a steal. But Jabbar has a sprained thumb, and the Braves have won 23 straight at home. The Bucks win it, but by only four points. Lotsa people bet big." Meaning that there's always more to any game than strict measures of talent reveal. You've got to research a game before you bet. The bookies don't; their job never goes beyond quoting the line and handling the cash. Despite their practical...
...relaxed, attentive and unhostile. He nodded, reflected, took off his spectacles, put hand to chin and studied me a while, knocked out his pipe-ash on the round cork knob within the center of a pewter bowl, looked out the window with a weary sense of aging decency, pressed thumb and finger to his brow in old and practiced sense of sorrowful exhaustion. He said to me this: "Of course it's so of course it's not correct. It isn't right for some of us here to have so much, and others have so little...
...tenth inning, the Mets' Bud Harrelson was thrown out in a close play at the plate while trying to score on a fly ball, and an apparent New York triumph dissolved with the jerk of umpire Augie Donatelli's thumb...
...Spring of 1972 which helped bring about Bok's new system, or the withdrawal of a large gift by a donor who deemed the University's policies as a shareholder unsatisfactory (this recently happened at Berkeley, according to Farber)--these precedents probably will be the rule of thumb...