Word: hernia
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...Amherst nine will be playing its first game of the season against the College boys. Williams, who has not yet recovered from a hernia operation, is only to manage and coach the team, although he may be called upon to pinchhit. Pesky, sensational shortstop for the Red Sox last year, needs no formal introduction to baseball fans, and will be at his regular position...
...that prevents Friday's contest with the trainees from reaching epic proportions is the fact that Williams participation will be as coach, not player. The eccentric Red Sox outfielder underwent a hernia operation recently, and is not sufficiently recovered to play...
Anticlimactically ended was the well-publicized case of balding, bespectacled Bandsman Kay Kyser v. the draft. Turned down on his 1-A appeal, despite OWI-backing for his efforts as a war-bond hawker, the 36-year-old swingster was turned down by Army physicians (hernia and arthritis...
...Gregory Rice, a pony-sized runner with a Percheron kick, is the fastest distance racer ever developed in the U.S. Despite a triple hernia that has kept him out of the services, he has won 57 consecutive races (the great Paavo Nurmi won only 50), has whittled down the indoor records for two and three miles to 8:51.1 and 13:45.7 respectively. Last week, in his first race since pulling a tendon in his heel three months ago, Rice beat his nearest rival over two miles by 55 yards. But his time was not unusual...
Technique. The man who related this surgical back-fence gossip with such gusto did his first operation alone-he thinks it was for hernia - on a woman at Blackwell's almshouse (now New York City's Welfare Island). He made his fortune during many years of operating on five or more patients a day, becoming the grand old man of Manhattan surgery. His limousine, with driver and red setter in front, the doctor and his sociable wife in back, is a familiar sight on tree-lined 70th Street where he lives...