Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least, Harvard's baseball team is going to hang on tightly to first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League standing. By turning back Dartmouth, one of the leaders, last Saturday while Yale, another close rival, was being upset by Pennsylvania, the Cantabs comented their grip on the lead, scoring their seventh victory in nine games, and they cannot be displaced before June 18, when their next league game is scheduled...
...third chukker Forbes stretched his team's lead to 4 to 2, but Yale's Wooley narrowed the margin with a goal just before the end of the period, putting the Harvard mallet-men into a 4-3 lead at the end of the first half...
Sitting in the centre of his pirogue, with one leg doubled under him, Adam Billiot furiously dug in his homemade paddle when he heard the starting bomb, jumped into a five-yard lead, zoomed past the fishermen's huts along the banks, crossed the finish line first, amid piercing pirogue yells of "Ay-la-baaa." But the first prize of $200 was not for Adam Billiot. After finishing his four-mile sprint he discovered that the bomb that sent him off was a prankster's firecracker...
Almost the 190-lb, stroke was placed under doctor's care yesterday, a faint hope remained that he would be able to lead Tom Bolles' undefeated eight in the most vital test of the season. If not, Bill Rowe will move up from the Jayvees to take his place and Barr Comstock will shift from the Thirds to lead the Seconds...
Although the Elephants got the jump at the start in the feature brush and hung on to their lead, there was a hot tussle for second. At one point more than a length behind, the Bellboys but on the pressure in the last few hundred yards to nip the Deacons by a deck length...