Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embarking today for England where they will take part in the one-hundredth anniversary Henley Regatta, Bert Haines' 150-pound crew leaves New York today on the Aquitania, confident of victory. The Eli crew which it beat last month on the Charles will make the voyage on the same boat...
...handed a shoe box containing $10,000 worth of marked $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills to a man with a flashlight. The man promised "Skeegie" would be returned promptly. As that day and the next passed, the Princeton crowds grew ugly. They began going out in posses to beat the tangled Florida bushland, to comb coastal bayous, jungled keys...
Thus it was that when Iowa's votes were counted, it seemed to matter little that a lot of other candidates were nominated for a lot of other offices; that former Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson beat Representative Lloyd Thurston for the Republican nomination for Senator. Looming with a significance precisely equal to what others of other States might read into it was the Democratic Senatorial result: Gillette over Wearift by about 2-to-1. Three other Democratic candidates polled negligible votes...
...purchase a $40 scarlet coat with brass buttons, golf was the pastime of the "400." Its players were not only kidded on the vaudeville stage, but scorned by the more experienced, less gaudy British. In 1913, however, when an obscure 20-year-old Bostonian named Francis Ouimet beat Britain's famed barnstorming professionals, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, for the U. S. Open championship, Great Britain began to raise her eyebrows. And in 1922, after an amazing crop of young golfers had sprouted up all over the U. S., Great Britain agreed to play...
...Champion Yates, a 24-year-old Atlanta bank clerk whose best previous accomplishment had been a Western Amateur victory in 1935, went the distinction of being the fourth U. S.-born-&-bred golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...