Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing at number one in an early match, Peter Smith got the Crimson off to a good start with a 3-1 victory over Williams, Clyde Buck. Behind 13-10 in the first game, Buck rallied to gain a 14-all deadlock, but Smith chose to stake the game on a single point...
...second game the same situation came up, only Buck reached 14 first and thus had the choice for the number of "overtime" points to be played. He too chose...
Smith took the third game handily, moving from a single point lead at 9-8 to an eventual 15-8 win. In the fourth he seemed assured of an even easier victory, but Buck came back from a 12-4 deficit to tie the score at 13-all, winning the last three points on cannonball services. Smith won the match on five straight overtime points...
...huge boxing gloves and sparring with his bull-necked secretary in a sitting room of the old Waldorf. It sometimes seems that Fowler had the kind of mind that files what other people forget. If one wants to know it, Skyline is the place to find out that a buck-and-wing dancer named Charles B. Lawler composed and sold The Sidewalks of New York for "a few dollars" and afterward went blind...
...Wellington sat down to wait, what he presumed was Eugenie's little sister descended upon him. She stepped on his white buck shoes, untied his bow tie, mussed his hair, poked her fist in his eye, and jumped in his lap. "Get off me, kid, you shed," Wellington hissed...