Word: infielding
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...admiring eyes, and bettors can be heard exchanging tips on both in Urdu, Sudanese, Hindustani or Cambodian. But from under the toppers and turbans in the grandstand comes only an occasional listless Allez! or Vite!; it is across the turf on the grassy reaches of Longchamp's infield that the passion of Parisian racing is concentrated...
...admission, stand "the shoeless ones"-the great middle-class portion of the crowd which is popularly supposed to bet its shoes and go home barefoot. When a start is bad or a favorite jostled, the crowd has been known to set fire to the beer stands dotting the infield, pull the pari-mutuel booths up by the roots and send the swells across the track fleeing...
...schedule (they begin a long home stand while Brooklyn embarks on a perilous western trip), they could very easily blow the pennant if Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion's ailing sacroiliac doesn't behave. Solid, knowledgeable Marty Marion is the steady man who holds the Cardinal infield together...
...press row for the fiftieth year was Tom Sullivan, groundskeeper emeritus, was hasn't missed a Yale game since 1900. He was present today by courtesy of the HAA, which apparently felt that Tom was necessary even if he wasn't still caring for the infield...
...Yardlings made it 5 to 5 in the eighth, as shortstop Henry Young singled Charlie Cabet, pinch hitting, pepped to second baseman McHugh who dropped the ball and then erased Young at second. Switzer get an infield safety, and Hill Goodman, running for Spider Webb who had run for Cabet, fallied on a wild pitch...