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When the old Detroit Pistons star George Yardley, 56, acknowledged recently that he never would have been able to play professional basketball as it is practiced today, the two-hand set shooter Bob Davies, 65, wisely consoled him: "You can only be a little bit better than your competition." Gretzky and Bird could use each other for competition. Some day they will be explained by the numbers, but the statistics will be as unreliable as Babe Ruth's. "It wasn't just that Ruth hit more home runs than anybody else," observed Red Smith, who rode trains with Ruth...
Meanwhile, Bok & Co. were opening up a 38-23 halftime edge. Bok recovered from a Meyers "in-the-face" driving lay-up with a nifty two-hand set shot from downtown en route to an eight-point first half. Bok saw the roundball on severla occasions, thanks to the generous passing of subordinate Wyatt, who, like any aspiring Veep, shoveled it to his boss continually...
...More important, Fleisher feels that he can establish contact with his players better if he is able to be "among them, rather than above." Most conductors give the beat with the right hand and use the left for expression. Not Fleisher. He sometimes swung both arms up, fists closed. He often seemed to be playing an imaginary piano, both hands thrusting forward as if striking a two-hand chord. At a private seminar a few weeks ago, Conductor Morton Gould asked Fleisher to beat time with his right hand, and then asked him to pretend that he was playing...
...scored in so many entrancing ways. Donovan, with a two-hand set, and occasionally, with one of the few two-hand jump shots around, struck from the outside. Hooley and the mountainous Quinn dominated the boards. Power, Hooley, and Donovan engineered the Eagles' fast break...
...often marked off with nothing more than coats discarded by the likes of New York Post Columnist Leon ard Lyons, who has lured such celebritie as the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche and TV Phil Silvers into games with his four sons One-hand touch usually serves for tyros two-hand touch below the waist for the more experienced. Wearying of the inevitable arguments about touches or misses, the experts tag each other by yanking away a "flag" of canvas tucked under each player's belt...