Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played the marlin with back motion, changing his hand from rod to reel, until his kidney harness broke. The other boys tried a shoulder harness on him, but that was no good. Said Louis: "My arm was sore, my back was sore, my seat was sore. They poured water on me and on the reel and tried different shoulder straps until I bled in four places. I hate to give up a pole, but I finally had to give it to John...
...nine rounds last week, Marcel Cerdan of Casablanca, onetime marine in France's navy, had done the best he could, but he was fighting with one hand. In the opening round, the first time he threw a left hook, he had torn the elevator muscle in his left shoulder. From Challenger Jake La Motta's corner, he heard the entreaties of La Motta's handlers above the buzz of 22,183 spectators: " 'At's it, Jackson. 'Atta go, Jackson . . . put the bomb in." Jake (alias Jackson) never put the bomb in. Just before...
Feller himself, a confident, hard-boiled-businessman ballplayer, insisted there was nothing wrong with his arm that time could not cure. He had pulled a shoulder muscle in spring training at Tucson, while demonstrating Cleveland's pickoff play for photographers, and the arm stayed weak. Complete rest might have been the soundest treatment, but the Indians were loth to shelve their high-priced star; Right-Hander Feller took his pitching turn-and his lumps-without complaint...
...possible surprise Crimson starter will be Myles Huntington, last year's regular second baseman, who was injured in the third Dartmouth hockey game and spent the early part of the baseball season waiting for a broken shoulder to mend...
...Princeton last week against a combined Princeton-Cornell team, Britain's Bannister demonstrated the casual approach. In the mile, he loped along with a nine-foot stride. When he decided to take over, he spurted to the front. In characteristic English fashion he glanced over his shoulder, once almost took a header running too close to the track's concrete curb-and still won in 4:11.1. It was the second-fastest mile run on U.S. cinders this year...