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...which is to say that Beck, and his league leading teammates will be at the Blockhouse Monday night looking for, the first place clincher. Beck scored 30 points against the Crimson earlier this year...
...record mark, people who had never seen a horse race were asking: "Will he make it?" Tony did, getting in under the wire in the last race at Tropical Park on the next-to-last day of the year. On New Year's Eve, as a clincher, Tony rode Winner No. 390, two more than the longtime record of 388, set by Walter Miller in 1906 and tied in 1950 by Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culm one.* For little (5 ft. 2 in., 106 Ibs.) Tony DeSpirito, the record was a victory scored against long odds...
...Clincher. Four months later he got it. Hoffner's conviction rested on the testimony of a waiter. He was the only one who had identified Hoffner as the killer. Mowery discovered that the first time the waiter tried to pick Hoffner out of the lineup, he failed. Pressed by defense lawyers to explain why he missed Hoffner the first time, the witness said he had not seen him in profile, as he had viewed the killer. But Mowery checked into the line-up record, proved that the witness had seen Hoffner's profile, and even...
According to Captain Emil San Soucie, the Crimson strategy paid off as planned. John Bidwell, Al Blaylock, and Pete Rich went out fast and broke up the usual Yale scoring block by tiring the Eli's in the early part of the 4.2 mile race. The clincher came as the Crimson's Marsh Childs and Frank Nahigian came strong in the last mile and a half to pass the third, fourth, and fifth Yale scorers...
Said New York's Democratic Representative William E. Miller: "Army engineers construct nothing . . . They supervise . . . and they would probably have the people who are now employed by Niagara Mohawk to construct [the project] anyway." As a clincher, private powermen said they would impartially serve all customers, while the federal development would give more favorable contracts to cooperative and municipally operated utilities, at present servicing only 3% of the state's electric customers...