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...early 1950s the sales were held in the open air under a tent, the bidders sat on hard wooden chairs, and the average price for a yearling was closer to $5,000. The auctioneer's chant was only occasionally interrupted by Announcer Humphrey Finney. Eyeglasses perched precariously at the end of his nose, he chastised the audience in thick British accents: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're way too low on this filly. She's out of a stakes-winning mare by a half brother to the winner of the St. Leger." Then the auctioneer would continue...
...from the start alternated in its view between an awesome Christ and an accessible Christ. In the Calvinism of the original Great Awakening, Jesus was a severe judge; Jonathan Edwards and others emphasized sinful man's utter helplessness before him. In the 19th century revivals of Charles G. Finney and Dwight L. Moody, however, the Lord had become more sympathetic: he began to help those who helped themselves by responding to his grace. Pious white Sunday-school art has since made Jesus into an effete Aryan rather than a rugged Jewish carpenter, but that image is hardly more subjective than...
...enough that Princeton is ignored every year by the selection committee, but insult is added to injury when the District II championship games are played every year on Princeton's Finney Field while the Tigers watch...
...unlike House Parties Weekends of yesteryear, one of the highlights is not likely to be the Harvard-Princeton lacrosse game at 2 p.m. today on Finney Field. Neither team has any hope of an exceptional season, and it may be that the Crimson will be able to crush the Tigers in front of 1500 partisans...
...Crimson sixth must have aged Yale coach Ken MacKenzie. Sitting on a comfortable 4-1 lead, he watched Corcoran load the bases on a single and two walks. In came fastball relief pitcher Finney. What Finney had in speed he lacked in control. Fourteen pitches, no strikes, and four runs later, Finney took a shower...