Word: cy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other inmates: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Grover C. Alexander, Connie Mack, Ban Johnson, John J. McGraw, Morgan Bulk.eley, George Wright, Alexander Cartwright, Henry Chadwick, Cap Anson, A. G. Spalding, Charles Radbourne, Arthur Cummings, Charles Comiskey, Buck Ewing, Eddie Collins, Wee Willie Keeler, George Sisler...
...Bishop Rowe's first sermons was preached to the sourdoughs in Cy Marx's Fairbanks saloon. Marx, a Jew, started the collection with a $10 bill, raised $1,400. "Tough and generous" Tex Rickard, who ran a saloon and gambling house, helped raise money for the Episcopal hospital in Circle City, first in the interior of Alaska. In those gold-rush days, Bishop Rowe bunked with Rex Beach and Jack London, taught the latter about Huskies...
...Brooks, another Junior letterman, whose one-man Maginot Line almost halted Michigan last Fall, seems to be definitely in at one tackle post, but the other remains wide open. Pond is testing three men for this assignment, Seniors George Seabury and Cy Taylor, and Junior Jerry Knapp. So far there has been little to choose between them. Taylor is a veteran letterman, while Knapp was ineligible last Fall after starring on his Freshman team...
...Brayton got the only sixth in the mile, as Cy Marden capitalized on a 200 yard handicap to break the tape in 4:19.4. Scratchmen Dave Simboli, Bob Nichols, and Pen Tuttle finished in that order in the two-mile, while Roger Schafer won both hurdle events...
Famed oldtime Pitcher "Cy" Young, now Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, in Ohio's Senate, was annoyed to find himself listed on baseball's "Scroll of Fame" as Denton Tecumseh Young. His real middle name: True...