Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forward wails line up with Bob Green at left end, Alex Keverkian left tackle, Wilson left guard, Time Russell center, Allen right guard, Ken Booth right tackle, and Don Daughters right end. The second line has Gibby Winter right end, Don Barkin left tackle, Nee left guard, Rick Hedblom center, Downes right guard, Tom Healey right tackle, and Win Jameson right...
Freed. Writer Ernest C. Booth, 39, from Folsom Prison, after serving 13 years of a 25-year sentence for robbery; in Sacramento, Calif. Attempting, in 1926, to escape from the San Quentin Prison Hospital, Convict Booth fell, broke both legs. During his convalescence he started writing, subsequently turned out a novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif...
...successfully if not brilliantly defended the heavyweight championship of the world which he won two months ago by knocking out James J Braddock (TIME, July 5). And Thomas George Paul John Farr, 23, who grew up as a colliery boy in Wales, who once was a "booth fighter" earning five shillings a week boxing with yokels at country fairs, earned $50,000 in an evening...
...Winter, and Red Daughters will divide the end posts between them. Alex Kevorkian, mentioned on several all-American teams, will hold down one tackle position. The other may be taken over by Joe Nee who played guard last year most of the time, or possibly by Wilson. That leaves Booth as a substitute tackle. Captain Russ Allen will have things his own way as one guard leaving the other for either Nee or Boston...
...treacherous mud. Only a few sportswriters, accustomed to the racing of running horses in any kind of weather, grumbled when officials decided that the Hambletonian, greatest and richest race for U. S. trotting horses, would not be run that day. Any oldster, munching sandwiches in the Ladies' Aid booth, knew that a trotter, whose right front leg and left rear leg must move in dancing unison,* has no business trying to speed when the going is slippery...