Word: brawley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while, but gave them up as "too dangerous." Swarthout found a substitute in something closer to the ground by turning auto racer in big (270 cu. in. cylinder displacement), standard racing cars, then gave them up for earth-hugging midget (up to 145 cu. in.) racing. Last week, at Brawley, Calif., 50-year-old Ward Swarthout, now a grandfather, was happily racing just a couple of inches off the ground in the tiniest of all racers: micro midgets...
...Laughs." At the Brawley races last week, racketing and roaring around the one-eighth-mile track, the little micros hit it up as high as 60 m.p.h. on the straightaways (record for the track: 11.8 sec.). Remarked one micro-midgeter: "When you're that close to the ground, 60 miles an hour is a hell of a lot faster than 120 in a standard-size car." Ward Swarthout's micro had a field day, beginning with two seconds and two firsts in the day's early events...
...Harry E. Brawley, Pikesville, Md.; Phillip R. Burnamen, Tulsa, Okla.; Charles L. Harding 3d, Syesset, N. Y.; Phillips M. Herrera, Guatamela; Richard W. Hook, Medford, Mass.; Edward V. Keating, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Samuel F. Quarter one. Andover, Mass.; Arnold D. Rubin, Newton Centre, Mass.; Mark Abramowicz, Cambridge, Mass...
...present, four freshmen grapplers are undefeated. They are Phil Burnaman at 137, Harry Brawley at 147, Captain Dick Hook at 157, and Charlie Harding in the 167 pound class...
...wrestling team is undefeated and unscored upon in four starts. Hank Brawley, recently advanced to the starting 147-pound post, will try to help preserve the mark...