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Word: contesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sporting a hole around second base big enough to drive through in a Mack truck, the Funsters lost a three run lead in the final innings as their opponents capitalized on infield hits and wild throws. Manager, Bob Curley, ended the contest in the last of the seventh, when his bounding ball over second went for a single to score the tie-breaking run from third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Edge Dunster 8-7; Will Contest in Finals | 8/16/1946 | See Source »

Tight fielding and few hits marked the contest, as Adams' Varsity-studded infield was matched by the stellar play at shortstop of Bunny Paul Fulton. Seyindur Croft went the distance on the mound for the losers and allowed only four hits, while both hurlers gave up but one walk apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams and Kirkland Win Contests In First Round of Baseball Finals | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

...Alabama, industrious John Sparkman, House Majority Whip, missed a clear majority over four opponents by a whisker (less than 300 votes), in a contest to fill the Senate seat of the late John H. Bankhead. In the runoff, Sparkman faces conservative James A. Simpson, Birmingham corporation lawyer, who ran second in both rural and city districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who Won, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

With last Wednesday's contest against Squantum washed out by a heavy down-pour, Coach Adolph Samborski's summer varsity drew a damp end to a short, inglorious summer baseball campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Cancels Squantum Tilt As Varsity Nine Ends Season | 8/9/1946 | See Source »

...Crimson scoring department pushed two runs across in the third and four in the sixth, but it left eight men on bases during the course of the abbreviated six-inning contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Trounces Crimson, 10-6, for Third Win | 8/6/1946 | See Source »

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