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In the final of last week's Men's Singles, aggressive, lefthanded, 22-year-old Jimmy McDaniel and fleet-footed, keen-minded, ay-year-old Reginald Weir put on the best tennis performance that has been seen in Jim Crow tournaments since Negroes first learned to play the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

One of the ablest baseballers who ever lived, famed Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb is now one of the world's richest retired athletes. His fortune consists mostly of fat Coca-Cola holdings which he bought long ago on advice from his hunting crony, Coca-Cola's President Bob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champion | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Byron Haines, Washington's lefthanded, left-footed, drop-kicking halfback wears custom-made football shoes, and in them has become the best open-field runner on the Coast. Jim ("Sugar") Cain, campus representative for Beech Nut chewing gum, has played every position in Lhe backfield this season, functioned effectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

In a series of vaudeville blackouts, he is soon befuddling the Army psychological examiners while they are trying to catechize him; enraging the drill sergeant who will not realize that Johnny is lefthanded; unintentionally stealing the captain's girl. From this rough & tumble, the show then leaps to exalted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

In the Navy game, the Virginia squad got off to a fast start when Pete Nistad, who specializes in lefthanded forward passing, completed two long tosses for scores in the first half. Later the Middles' power plays began functioning, and Navy pulled the game out of the fire in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FACE TRICKY, DECEPTIVE TEAM WHEN VIRGINIA COMES HERE | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

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