Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Poughkeepsie contest still unreconstructed, the nation-wide struggle out west is the outstanding rowing event of the inter-collegiate season. Hence a victory, unlooked for by even the most rabid of Crimson rooters, or a finish among the top three eights, would mean that the current Bolles aggregation would return the sweep swingers to a position somewhere near the top of the heap spot that Nowell operatives have traditionally held...
...Terriers 6 to 0 on Soldiers Field. The story was just about reversed on June 5, when Joe Gathman let the Stahlmen down with 3 hits while his mates pounded the lead up to 8 to 0 before Jupe Pluvious stepped in and called a halt to the contest in the sixth inning...
Alabama: The runoff primary for governor was a freakish contest. Outsize (6 ft. 8 in.) Jim Folsom, ex-G.I. endorsed by the C.I.O., mopped up professional politician L. Handy Ellis with the added help of sudsy showmanship (TIME, May 20) and a five-piece band. Big Jim, who swore he kissed 50,000 women in the campaign, polled heavily in back-country areas, and in these he had discreetly soft-pedaled his P.A.C. support...
Catchers Bill Barron and Armen Essayen will be available for the two remaining "spring" contests as well as the summer schedule, as will pitchers Norm Wholley and John Knowles, and first sacker Bill Fitz. But the rest of the squad, second baseman Saul Mariaschin, shortstop Don Forte, third-baseman Don Coppinger, and outfielders Nick Rodis and Mal Allen will leave the Crimson squad after the Eli contest, and their positions remain a matter of doubt until Samborski sizes up his new prospects...
...already line up five games for the Varsity's summer program, and it is hoped that several more contests will be arranged to provide two games every week with local college and service squads. After opposing B.U. at Riverside on June 22 and the Yale contest at New Haven on June 24, the following games are listed for the summer...