Word: gym
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardling Stahleymen, who have dropped eight games and won seven, vindicated themselves by crushing Yale in the Payne Whitney gym. At the beginning of the game the two teams were playing a nip and tuck contest, but when "Skip" Stahley's plays began to click, the Crimson team forged ahead to end the half-time...
When the Varsity hoopsters step onto the floor of the Payne Whitney gym in New Haven this evening to face their traditional rivals, the Elis, it will be the familiar situation of an underdog Harvard meeting a taller opponent which boasts a far better record of wins and losses...
...Handsome, uncauliflowered Billy Conn, light heavyweight champion of the world: the Edward J. Neil Memorial Plaque of the New York Boxing Writers' Association, for his "outstanding contribution to boxing in 1939." Outstanding contribution last week: his remark to sluggish Heavyweight Henry Cooper (his onetime gym mate) while beating him in Manhattan: "Hey, Henry, we're stinkin' the joint...