Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubbard had been refused, to dozens of different owners for a total of $57,565. Unnoticed by most in the room was a plump little man who kept nervously wiping his forehead and gazing first at Auctioneer Otto Bernet, then at Mrs. Hubbard as she bid $100 at a crack with the raise of a pencil. It was Escort Edwin Krenn. "All this is breaking my heart," declared this beneficiary under the McCormick will, with a wave of his hand. "It cuts into me, you know, it cuts into...
...performed his greatest journalistic coup. An Amarillo lawyer named A. D. Payne, suspected of killing his wife by placing a bomb in their automobile, went to the News-Globe office and asked Editor Howe to find the real culprit. With the aid of the Kansas City Star's crack Crime Reporter A. B. MacDonald, Editor Howe found that the real culprit was A. D. Payne...
Coach Lorn is not Chinese. He is a Jew who was once a crack halfback of University of California.* He artfully persuaded his players who did show up that their parents would probably be less irate if they won. However the Japanese, including two former college linemen named Ping Oda and Ichiyafu, outplayed them for three periods. Then the Chinese team pulled itself together. Leong blocked Sim Nambu's punt on Japan's 8-yd. line, and Charley Hing slashed to a touchdown. Another blocked kick and Hing went over again. With the score 13-to-12 against...
Every year the Amateur Athletic Union awards the Sullivan Medal to the U. S. athlete "who . . . has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Last week the A. A. U. announced its 1933 medalist. He is Kansas University's crack middle-distance runner, Glenn Cunningham, who at the age of 8 was so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again. To develop his scarred legs he took up running, even learned to play football. But because he developed into such an expert trackman coaches forbade him to play...
Closer than many of Glenn Cunningham's races was the balloting which gave him the medal. He received 611 votes. Only one vote behind him was another crack middle-distance runner, Princeton's Bill Bonthron. Like Cunningham, he is most famed as a miler, but they never raced together. Bonthron amazed the sport world in the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge meet last July when he ran close second to Oxford's Jack Love lock in a record-breaking mile, then stepped out and won the half-mile...