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...Nebraska, Bion ("Bi") Shively was crazy over horses. By the time he was twelve, he was a full-fledged jockey, booting them home at the county fairs. At 17, Bi quit jockeying and transferred his affections to harness racing, a sport in which oldsters have long excelled. But a kid rider's hell-for-leather zest could not make do for the good, grey experience required to steer a careering sulky behind a winning trotter or pacer. Bi was still learning the rudiments of the harness sport in 1898 when he was called to the Spanish-American...
...promoters tried to bill it as the "fight of the century," and barred radio and television from ringside, but the fans were not fooled. Only 31,188 customers turned up in Yankee Stadium to see Heavyweight Harry ("Kid") Matthews, a pretty boxer who can't punch, square off against "Rocky" Marciano, a rugged puncher...
...first round, Matthews nimbly danced away from most of Marciano's bullish lunges, but caught a slam-bang one-two on the jaw just before the bell. The referee steered the Kid toward his own corner. In the other corner, Marciano's manager then told Rocky: "Stop hooking. Jab first-then hook and double it up." About two minutes later, Rocky applied the advice. Matthews went down on to the seat of his boxing trunks as if his ring record (unbeaten since 1943) had been pulled out from under him, took a count of 10. Mauler Marciano...
...Macartney, 72, is slightly less pessimistic about the state of the church in the U.S. than he once was. "Modernism," he says, "is not nearly so belligerent as it was. The barrenness of it has been demonstrated." But, to a man strong in the fundamentals of the Gospel, the kid-glove handling of the question of sin in many U.S. pulpits is still hard to take. Says Macartney: "One reason why we have so few conversions is that we don't ask people to repent...
Back home in Tulare, the folks were following his every move. Said one admiring Tularean: "You know, we'd be just as proud sending Bob over to Helsinki even if he couldn't score a point. He's just a good American kid, and I think more Europeans should see a good American kid. We're mighty proud and loud about him." But no one in Tulare really thought that anything short of a broken arm could keep Bob Mathias from making them prouder still...