Word: douglis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lifts & Luck. Besides Kramer, Coach Roche adopted just two other tennis protégés before going to Detroit to design new automobile gadgets. One was Ted Schroeder; the other was a youngster named Doug Woodbury, who died in an airplane crash...
Bearer's Progress. Seldom has a man risen so far and so fast in Dominion political life. Descendant of New England Tories of Revolutionary War days-he sometimes refers to his "New England conscience"-Doug Abbott had nothing to do with politics until he was 41. His career was law, his sports were bridge, golf, curling and fishing. Born in 1899 (at Lennoxville, Quebec), he served overseas in World War I, returned to finish his law studies. By 1940 he had a pretty wife, three children, a medium-sized income in a medium-sized Montreal law firm...
Additional track developments on the local scene were the appearances of Doug Pirnie and George Hauptfuhrer, representing the past and present of Harvard athletics in the 1940's. Pirnie, though, who holds the college 220-yard dash record (21.3), warned that he was "very doubtful" about the possibility of his helping the Crimson out this spring. So far he has restricted his practice to easy jogging...
...post time drew near, he told Jockey Doug Dodson to stay off the rail, and added: "If none of the other horses make any real pace, just go ahead out there in front and stay in front." The jockey did just that. He never had to use the whip. He gave the big horse his head, and in track-record time Armed (TIME, Feb. 17) ran away with the $50,000 Widener Handicap, Florida's biggest race. Next stop, after a 14-hour plane trip: California and this week's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
Frank Trinkle won the first bout for the Crimson in the 136-pound class where he pinned Doug Orner in 56 seconds of the third period. Dan Ray followed him by taking the 145-pound honors with a 2 to 1 decision over Jack Adams...