Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gregory Mangin, of Newark, N. J., who has never won an important tournament outdoors: his second consecutive U. S. Indoor Tennis Championship against a crack field including Clifford Sutler, Francis. Shields, George Lott, Berkeley Bell; 6-1. 6-3, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2, in the final against Sutter; in Manhattan. ¶ Glenn Cunningham of Kansas: a mile race in the Knights of Columbus Games, with Glen Dawson of Tulsa second, Carl Coan of Penn third and Gene Venzke of Penn, who set the world's record of 4:10 a year ago and has hitherto been Cunningham...
...York Giants had just come back to his hotel after winning an exhibition game from the Chicago Cubs in Los Angeles. "I never experienced anything like that in my life," he said. "At first I was inclined to take it for a joke and I remember making some crack about guessing the shock of the Giants' winning a ball game being too much." Manager Terry fled to the middle of a square outside the hotel, surrounded, like a hen with chicks, by the whole Giant team. At length Trainer Willie Schafer was prevailed upon to go back into...
Suit Won. Against Victor Talking Machine Co. (now RCA-Victor Co.); by David Graves George, 67, Southern Railway Co. employe, onetime Virginia hillbilly; for an accounting of profits on the record, "The Wreck of the Old 97" which George claimed he wrote in 1906 when a crack mail train plunged off a trestle near Franklin Junction, Va. Probable royalties: over...
...barrier crumpled, a 10-ft. crack opened three feet from the tent in which Captain Riiser-Larsen, Hallvard Devoid and Olaw Kjelbotn slept. Outdoors was pitch dark. They returned to their tent, anxiously waiting for daylight...
...five years. Oregon State's 6-ft-5-in. captain and centre, Ed Lewis, league record-breaking scorer, had a week to get ready for the tip-off against the next best centre on the coast, Southern California's Lee Guttero and U. S. C.'s crack forward, Jerry ("Little Nemo") Nemer...