Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggested that an even longer boat might be even faster. When Owner Sopwith, reasoning the same way, built Endeavour II four feet longer than Endeavour I, which was about the same length as Rainbow, Owner Vanderbilt's best move obviously was to follow his rival's lead-aware that, if the longer boat did not live up to expectations, the U. S. would still have Rainbow to fall back on for a defender. Before work began on Ranger-built up to the 87-ft. waterline limit-a tiny model was raced against a miniature Endeavour I, proved much...
Baseball tradition says that the teams that lead the major leagues on July 4 will win the pennants. Another criterion of the baseball races is the players' performances in the annual All-Star game. Inaugurated in Chicago as an Exposition stunt, the All-Star game between an American League team and a National League team, picked by fans' votes, has provided plenty of celebrities but undistinguished baseball. This year the fans had no say in the team selections and Managers Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy, who managed last year's pennant-winning New York Giants...
...last week's end the Chicago Cubs still had a two-game lead over the New York Giants in the National League race. Racing closely enough behind to produce another exciting finish such as has distinguished National League play every year since 1931 were the Pittsburgh Pirates (4½ games behind the Cubs) and the St. Louis Cardinals (5 games behind...
...with a 78 in the morning round. Hagen was stuck with 80, Shute with 76. Only young Byron Nelson and Charles Lacey, British by birth, controlled their pitching and putting, carding respectively 71 and 70. By mid-day Reginald Whitcombe, at home in the torrent, thought his two-stroke lead safe. No longer threatened by the U. S. pack, he only feared his brother and Henry Cotton as he drove off for the final 18 holes...
Favorite was blond Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany who last year won seven out of eight Grand Prix races in Europe, easily outclassed Italy's Tazio Nuvolari, the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup winner. Rosemeyer got away fast at the start this week, temporarily yielded his lead to his countryman Rudolf Caracciola until the tenth lap. Noisiest and swiftest (160 m.p.h.) on the straightaways, Rosemeyer roared up a lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman...