Word: jim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STATE COLLEGE, PENNA., March 25--Captain John Harkness '38, of the Crimson grapplers, Eastern Intercollegiate 175-pound mat champion, worked his way into the semi-finals of the N.C.A.A. wrestling championships by defeating Jim Taylor, Cornell College (Iowa) in the second round this afternoon and Wesley Leverich, Illinois, in the quarter-finals this evening...
...ring sat the buffoon of heavyweights, U. S. ex-Champion Max Baer, sometimes described as Madcap Max of the faint heart, now billed as attempting a serious comeback. In the other corner sat the heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Welshman Tommy Farr, loser to Joe Louis and Jim Braddock in his two U. S. fights, clumsy but courageous, now billed as the owner of a newly-developed punch. The odds were 2-to-1 on Farr, who had beaten Baer in London eleven months...
...love with a brisk little bookstore clerk. It has its murder, its two ambiguous strangers, its undercurrent of tension accompanying commonplace scenes like luncheons and parties. But all consequential happenings seem to take place off stage. Readers are told a good deal about the intoxications of Jim Malloy and Peggy Henderson, but not so much about their hangovers; a good deal about their transports but not so much about their quarrels. And the wisecracks that seemed in O'Hara's earlier books to be wrenched from the speakers like snarls of pain seem in Hope of Heaven...
Equalling his best 220 free-style time of 2:11.2 for the third race this year, Willie Kendall surged out in front of Yale Captain Johnny Macionis to win by a substantial margin. The Eli star never really challenged for the lead. Jim Curwen turned in 2:17.7 for a last minute triumph for third place over Captain Jimmy Simpson of Princeton...
Rusty Greenhood was twenty-third, with 24 points; Frank Coleman, same number; Don Barker, twenty-eighth, with 20; Jim Curwen, thirty-third, with 18; Don McKay, thirty-fourth, with 17; Ray Benedict, fifty-fifth, with 10 points...