Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain and someone had the idea of racing them instead of horses. Last week 10,000 entries arrived in poultry cars to race in the sixth annual terrapin derby at Ponca City. Their owners chalked identifying numbers on their diamond-panelled backs and put them under a big canvas hoop in the middle of a circle. Up went the hoop as the crowd shouted. Many turtles lay still, inert or stupid. Others began to move at frenzied speed but grew discouraged and lay down or remembered something and went back. A few plodded on to the outer line...
...Purple basketeers breaking a long line of defeats, by taking advantage of its height and the opponents' light weight tipped the ball into the hoop time and again while the Crimson dwarfs stretched in vain. Driscoll, high point man, with 16 points to his credit, standing head and shoulders above the Harvard guards, had only to stand under the basket and knock the ball in as it bounced off the board. He sank fouls when Rex and Burns tried to keep him down...