Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second largest offer ever made for a horse-$600,000 by the Aga Khan in 1926 to Sir James Rutherford, Scotch distiller, for Solarie, Ascot cup winner.
The Professional Golfers Association used to give a silver cup to the player who won their annual tournament. This year they put up a radio phonograph with a bronze plate for the winner's name. Nobody knew where the cup was. Walter Hagen had won it so often that...
Western Maryland kicked as often as they could. So did the University of Maryland. It made the game dull, but Frank Clary got across the goal-line twice for Western Maryland's eleventh straight victory, 12-0.
What about this slush fund for athletes? What about the president taking the certificates of eligibility out of the registrar's office so that nobody could keep tabs on him? In Chicago the athletic committee of the Western Conference questioned two professors this way and that. After a while...
Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed...