Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Floor Leader Barkley could think of no better comeback than to hope that his opponent was not minimizing the odds that had been offered...
...corner of the ring sat the buffoon of heavyweights, U. S. ex-Champion Max Baer, sometimes described as Madcap Max of the faint heart, now billed as attempting a serious comeback. In the other corner sat the heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Welshman Tommy Farr, loser to Joe Louis and Jim Braddock in his two U. S. fights, clumsy but courageous, now billed as the owner of a newly-developed punch. The odds were 2-to-1 on Farr, who had beaten Baer in London eleven months...
Although trailing by a 22 to 14 score at the end of the third period, the Goldcoasters made a determined last period comeback, tying up the score at 22 all in the last three minutes of the game. Then with two minutes to go. Moody of Davenport, slipped in the final tally. Hubert Hauck, at center, was high scorer for Adams, with ten points to his credit...
With the Boston K. of C. Meet comeback of Joe McClusky in the two-mile two weeks ago, the longer distance will surpass the mile classic tonight. Glen Cunningham is generally conceded the mile in the light of his easy recent victories and the fact that San Romani was badly spiked last week in the Millrose Games. So tonight the fans will be hanging over the balconies for a McClusky-Don Lash duel...
...Ralph Guldahl made the great comeback of the year. But Sam Snead made the great come-up. A million or more U. S. sport addicts now agree with the Virginia hillbillies, and some experts, notably Gene Sarazen, go so far as to say he is the greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones...