Some of the freshest, as well as some of the stalest, writing in U.S. newspapers appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges.
The usually stolid Christian Science Monitor inflicted cruel & unusual punishment on its readers with Pitchers Feller, Sain and Lemon in the World Series games between the Cleveland Indians and Boston Braves. A pre-game picture caption announced the starting pitchers: Brave Sain Braves Indian Feller. The caption on the morning-after picture: Sain-sational Start. The Page One headline: BOUDREAU CALLS FOR LEMON-AID.
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