Word: havana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three professional Cuban baseball teams, representing the Cuban Army, the Havana Sporting Club and the Cuban Almendares Club: by 7-to-4, 9-to-1 and 6-to-1; their games against last year's pennant-winning New York Giants, starting their spring training; at Havana...
Relaxing from his job of being Cuba's Dictator, Colonel Fulgencio Batista attended a Havana cock fight with a group of friends, including cultural Carlos Mendieta whom Batista made Cuba's President for a while...
...world's decathlon record with 7,900 points. Currently returned to obscurity as anonymous announcer for National Broadcasting Co. in New York, Decathloner Morris was amazed last week when told that he had won. Said he: "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish then?" Said Jesse Owens in Havana, where, having just won a race against a horse (TIME, Jan. 4), he was preparing to try to better his own world's record for the broad jump: "I'm glad the best...
...College Physical Education Association and the American Football Coaches Association, held simultaneously in Manhattan. Meanwhile, an aggregate crowd of 219,000 watched 14 teams tardily conclude the football season of 1936 on the first day of 1937 in seven post-season games, from San Francisco to Havana...
...ballyhoo Cuba's political serenity, boom Havana tourist trade, Cuba's idealistic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias last autumn hit on the idea of a Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human...