Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three members of the cheering squad, including Roger Butler, last fall's tumbling ace, are already working out stunts for next year in a private gymnasium in Boston...
Last December, when nominations closed for the $100,000 Santa Anita Maturity Stakes, Elizabeth Arden Graham decided to let her Ace Admiral stay in his stall. Citation, 1948's wonder horse, looked like an obvious shoo-in. Then Citation injured his left foreleg, and temporarily retired from the wars. Hastily Mrs. Graham's Maine Chance Farm shipped Ace Admiral west, and plunked down $5,000 for the handsome chestnut colt's late entry in the Maturity...
...Strub's rich Santa Anita winter season (TIME, Jan. 31). The track had been a quagmire much of the meeting, but sun and 1,000 tons of beach sand had finally dried it out. Most of the dozen four-year-olds were in patently poor condition. Ace Admiral quickly took the lead, was never in danger of being headed, and won by half a length in 2:02⅓. Said Jockey Johnny Gilbert: "This colt is going to be tough to beat in the [Santa Anita] Handicap next month...
...game was the gay abandon with which North eastern coach Herb Gallagher inserted his three lines. At no time during the game was there any guarantee that the Huskie first line would be replaced by the second. Nor did the makeup of the forward walls remain constant. Northeastern ace Jim Bell appeared as a cenlor, wing, and defenseman. Unfortunately the variety of Bell's roles had no damaging effects on his scoring skill and he collected three of Northeastern's five goals...
Mikkola predicted that the loss of Hamblett may add three seconds to the relay time, but he added that Brown is a good runner who can be an ace when "he puts his mind to it." Other men in the relay are Al Ruby, Pat McCormick, and Harvey Thayer...