Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purple team from Holy Cross showed Saturday that it is still one of the best teams of the summer circuit by beating the Crimson 8 to 3. The Crusaders hit the ball solidly to collect 14 hits. Jack Tivnan, who would be considered a Class A pitcher in any league, was again the opposing hurler and pitched brilliantly, striking out eight batters while only issuing two free trips to first base...
...Variety" and "Billboard" didn't have their representatives there, but girls from Boston's only co-ed college with a summer term opened on the local strawhat legit circuit last night, putting George Bernard Shaw's play, "You Never Can Tell,' from the Samuel French listing of the same name, on the boards of the Emerson College Theatre...
...week was nothing special for brash, 36-year-old Romy Gosz, who has made some 35 records for Columbia and Decca, and turned down various offers from bigtime bands. He prefers to stick with his own six-piece group ("five men and one musician") and his regular circuit of small Wisconsin towns. Six nights a week he plays hot, fast and loud for dances attended by Dutch, Bohemian, Belgian, German and Polish groups. In Wisconsin, no one has ever disputed the "King's" title...
...winter golf circuit, ginger-haired Byron Nelson copped eight tournaments with a sensational 18-hole average of 68.4 strokes. Sparse-haired Samuel ("Sambo") Snead was a dangerous second, with six wins and a 69.2 average. Such figures promised little less than perfection for last week's two-day battle royal between the two best golfers in the land. Perhaps it was because they played for charity instead of pay, but the match proved nothing more startling than that Snead and Nelson were equally human where strokes count most-on the greens...
With the American League practically rained out of business for two weeks, the National League was making news enough for both. The supposedly strong western teams had finished their first turn around the eastern circuit and had been knocked cold by the amazing New York Giants and the astounding Brooklyn Dodgers. The figures told...