Word: homestretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the first furlong Cravat was out of the running: it was Challedon and Kayak. Challedon went into the lead; halfway down the backstretch Kayak caught him, poked his brown nose farther & farther ahead as they streaked along against a backdrop of autumn foliage. As they rounded into the homestretch, Jockey Eddie Arcaro flipped his whip and Challedon began to run like a Halloween hooligan. He inched past Kayak and won going away, a half length in front at the wire...
Last week, as college baseball reached the homestretch of its 80th season, major-league scouts reviewed the year's outstanding players. No. 1 pitcher of the season has been Fordham's Hank Borowy, son of a New Jersey hat manufacturer, who has been defeated only once in 13 starts-and is Fordham's best batter to boot. Against Yale last week Right-hander Borowy performed in routine fashion: he struck out ten men, allowed only four hits, shut out his opponents 5-to-0 for Fordham's 16th victory of the season. In three years...
Through a grey drizzle, the shivering crowd watched Johnstown take the lead, just as expected. Down the backstretch he kept in front. But it was no runaway, like the Derby. Gilded Knight was on his heels, stride for stride. Coming into the homestretch, Challedon, who had been trailing the leaders, flew past them in a splatter of mud, crossed the finish line a length and a half-in front of Gilded Knight. Mighty Johnstown, with mud in his eye, strolled in next to last, almost ear to ear with last-place Ciencia, only filly in the race...
...from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer who bet his salary on Stagehand, to Seminole Indians who were lured from their nearby reservation to do a war dance in the infield for Mr. Widener's customers...
Powers led Gibbons by a yard for 14 laps, but then the diminutive Bruin pulled his way even, passing Powers and leading him for the next two lengths. The Crimson swimmer made a gallant bid as he went into the last turn, and came into the homestretch wide open cutting down his opponent's lead every second, but Gibbons stood him off until the finish, winning only by a touch...