Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tennis last week reached its grand finale for 1933, the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I. But that was not the only interesting event going on there. Strolling between grandstand, clubhouse and stadium courts, spectators could see numerous middle-aged and even elderly gentlemen playing tennis, and very good tennis, on the outer courts. This was the Veterans' Championship, for players over 45. In the final, onlookers beheld one of the most extraordinary tennists in the U. S., Clarence M. Charest, win the title for the third time, against S. Jarvis Adams, an unseeded oldster from Port...
From a flying start in front of the grandstand Roscoe Turner and Jimmy Wedell vanished neck-&-neck into the haze. At the end of the first 10-mi. lap Turner roared around the home pylon in the lead. But when they popped out of the mist again, null was in front. Then Turner took the lead, held it to the end of the race...
...grandstand big-framed Roscoe Turner, a clashing figure despite his coat of grime, received from Mary Pickford the Thompson Trophy-a gold plaque of Icarus, Greek myth boy, stretching winged arms aloft toward a modern racing plane. Also he mentally counted a third fat purse -$3,375. Admirers back-thumped him as the first man ever to clean up the three main events of the meet...
Near the Fair's southern tip lies the Travel & Transport Building. From a grandstand across the street the visitor may see the oxcarts, covered wagons, automobiles, ships, trains, airplanes of a century's travel-all functioning, with operators in period costumes. All vehicles except the ships, among them Fulton's steamboat and the Baltimore Clipper, are originals. Baltimore & Ohio R. R.'s ancient Tom Thumb locomotive, a boiler on wheels, leads the way for the Royal Scot. Straight-eight automobiles purr behind the horseless carriages...
...strides past the finish. Jockey Fisher stopped whipping his horse and reached over to slash at Jockey Meade. He dismounted, ran up to the judges' stand to protest that Meade had fouled him by holding his saddle cloth before the finish. For a moment everyone in the grandstand could see Fisher, a tiny, wildly excited figure in bright orange silks, waving both arms. The judges-aware that both jockeys had ridden roughly-turned their backs. Jockey Fisher sat down, buried his face in his hands. (Both he and Meade were later suspended.) On the score board, the word "official...