Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phil Haughey's hook shot at 16:35 gave the home team a 44-42 edge, its last lead of the game, as Cy Anfindson sank two foul shots at 16:55 and Tom Hart caged a short hook at 17:15 to put Middlebury ahead, 46 to 44. Frantic shooting by the Crimson could not shake the lead...
...bounced back from a 7-5 loss in the Amherst meet by shutting out Vertin, 4 to 0, and Tatsuo Arima (123), also defeated by the Jeffs, showed much improved condition in riding Tech's Boese to a 4-1 victory. The Crimson's third decision was Dick Hook's second win of the season, this time 8 to 1 over Hirschi...
Both are converted southpaws, and they were converted into anything but boxers. From the start they hardly bothered with anything so effete as an old-fashioned left jab. Free-swinging hooks to head and gut were what they threw. Nor was either of them beyond trying incautious righthand leads. It made a fine, bloody brawl. And DeMarco came close to finishing it in the seventh, when he clobbered the champ with a left hook to the jaw. Basilio's legs began a limber, loose-kneed dance of their own; his eyes emptied and his seconds screamed...
...grownup tells Lovejoy. "Then why don't people get things?'' the girl asks. "Because they don't want hard enough," answers the grownup. What Lovejoy wants more than anything in the world is a garden of her own, as rare in Catford Street as a tree in Brooklyn. By hook and by crook she starts one, but a gang of the neighborhood's teen-age toughs stomps it out. The leader of the gang, a rough-hewn Irish Tom Sawyer by the name of Tip Malone, makes his private peace with Lovejoy, and pretty soon she is his Becky Thatcher...
...moved to Chicago. Now Halas was a triple threat: owner, coach and player all at once. Times were so tough he also doubled as trainer, ticket-seller and publicity man. Not until he signed the great Red Grange in 1925, was Halas able to get off the financial hook...