Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pimlico last week, when Jockey Atkinson mounted Capot again for the $75,000 Preakness, the track was lightning fast as the nine horses shot from the starting gate. Noble Impulse, the pacemaker, chopped a second off the track record for the half-mile, 2 4/5 seconds off the seven-furlong mark (with a sizzling 1:23 1/5). In the stretch, Slasher Atkinson went to the whip and drove into the lead. Atkinson no longer had to worry about groggy Noble Impulse, but Eddie Arcaro, aboard Palestinian, had slipped through a hole on the bend. For the last 100 yards...
Using a 36-to-the-minute stroke, Princeton spurted into the lead. Harvard's 130-pound coxswain, William Leavitt, called a steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open...
Captain Jack Donelan will pitch for the Yardlings in his eighth mound appearance. His record stands at 4-2, with one tie. Donelan is neither very fast nor very tricky, but his control throughout the season has been remarkable...
There are no such expressions as a "fast boat' 'and a "slow boat." All dinghios in a particular class are identical in construction, and, consequently, racing laurols go to the real sailor and not to the man who has simply the advantage of a good boat. Many regattas are now run on a round-robin basis, whereby the same skipper never gets the chance to race twice in the same boat...
Adams batters couldn't touch Dwight's fast ball and his crafty drop. Nine Gold Coasters struck out, and only five reached base, four being walked and one being hit by a pitch...