Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grove who was Mickey Cochrane's longtime battery mate on the Athletics. Without Cochrane, Grove's pitching has not been up to scratch. Even so the Red Sox, consistent tail-enders in their league for the last nine years, were last week in third place, two games ahead of the hard-hitting Cleveland Indians. Washington was in fifth place. Philadelphia was establishing itself firmly in the lower half along with St. Louis and Chicago...
...years ago was considered the greatest ever developed in the U. S. - Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania. As usual, they let Venzke lead for the first lap. Cunningham passed him first, Bonthron a little farther on. One hundred and fifty yards from the finish, when Cunningham was 15 yd. ahead and gaining slowly, it looked as if last week's race might be a replica of the one at Princeton three weeks ago when Cunningham won by 40 yd. with a new world's record for the mile. But spectators were destined to see a finish none of them...
...more quickly. In 30 yd. around the last turn, he gained 7 yd. Down the home stretch he made up the distance more slowly, a yard at a time. Twenty yards from the tape, the two men were abreast. Ten yards farther on, Bonthron was almost 2 ft. ahead. He turned his head to look at Cunningham, then broke the tape with a world's record...
...thing about Henry Cotton's first two rounds in last week's British Open Golf Championship at Sandwich was not that the first (67) tied Walter Hagen's record for the Open nor that the second (65) set a new record and put him nine strokes ahead of the field. It was the fact that Cotton is a Briton. No Englishman has won the British Open since Arthur Havers...
...reputed to be the best dressed professional golfer in Europe. He brought with him to Sandwich last week his private trainer & masseur. On the third round Cotton got a creditable 72. On the fourth he blew up completely with a 79, but by that time he was so far ahead it made no difference. His 283 tied Gene Sarazen's record Open total...