Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardest rowing of the race. At Barnes Bridge, Oxford made its final challenge. The stroke went up, 32 to Cambridge's 30, and the Dark Blue boat gained a length. But Cambridge met the challenge and the race was won-by 4½ lengths at the finish, twelfth victory for Cambridge in twelve years...
...spent the winter pouring $200,000 into minor-league treasuries for new players, of whom the most promising, First-Baseman John Mize, cost $50,000. But the team will start the season with an infield of four rookies, a weak pitching staff. Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston are likely to finish in the second division. Among the serious contenders, most experts think the Pittsburgh Pirates, with capable but unreliable pitchers, the Chicago Cubs, with dubious pitching and an experimental infield, are too weak to cause serious trouble for either the New York Giants or the St. Louis Cardinals. The Giants...
...Wide awake to the necessity of finding new revenue to balance athletic budgets, Princeton has brought forth a plan to put crew on a semi-paying basis. Asa S. Bushnell, graduate manager, has announced that the Carnegie Lake course will be reversed and a grandstand erected at the finish. A large area of open meadow, which will be roped off, is expected to yield substantial income...
...most spectators. Things most of the crowd missed seeing last week were Castle Irwell's blunder at the Canal Turn; Royal Ransom's jockey being unseated at Valentine's Brook; 21 other mishaps that cut the field, smaller than usual, to six horses at the finish...
Major Noel Furlong's Reynoldstown, a big black steeplechaser, bred by his modestly well-to-do owner in Ireland, was ridden by Major Furlong's son, a onetime officer in the Ninth Lancers, who finished second in the Grand National of 1933. In need of the ,?6.570 first prize for his forthcoming wedding, Gentleman Jockey Frank Furlong galloped strongly through the last heart-breaking uphill 300 yards. At the finish, Reynoldstown was first by three lengths. Said Frank Furlong: "I don't know...