Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passing Dartmouth's Don Baker seven yards before the finish of the 200-yard butterfly, Crimson captain John Hammond climaxed an entire team effort that defeated the Indians 54 to 32, and turned back the unbeaten varsity's sternest challenge to date...
Hammond's win in the fly, after nearly coming off a sick bed to do so, pointed up a magnificent team display. Trailing for most of the race, the varsity captain drove with a tremendous push for the final lap to pass Baker short of the finish...
Dyke Benjamin, barely recovered from a leg injury which has hobbled him all season, ran a splendid 9:28.9 in the two-mile to finish second to John Morrison, who set a Yale and Coxe Cage record of 9:26.3. Benjamin had not been able to run at all until ten days ago, when he began to work out on grass. Competing with virtually no practice, he battled Morrison down to the last laps...
...target is banking . . . Open fire . . . 218, are you attacking? Yes, yes . . . The target is burning . . . The tail assembly is falling off the target . . . I am in front of the target . . . Look at him. He will not get away. He is already falling. Yes, he is falling. I will finish him off, boys, I will finish him off on the run. The target has lost control, it is going down . . . The target has turned over . . . Aha, you see, it is falling. Yes . . . form up, go home...
Hillsdale, the four-year-old bay colt that is suddenly the hottest piece of horseflesh in U.S. racing, flashed across the finish line to win the $177,150 Santa Anita Maturity. In a box near the finish line, a huge bulk of a man broke down and cried for joy. At 3:30 next morning, flushed with triumph and celebration, Clarence Whitted ("Big Smitty") Smith, 40, wandered out to Hillsdale's barn, delivered a rambling oration to his horse...