Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the racers got to Lima (2,900 miles away), there were only 66 contestants left, and the Gálvez boys had won five of the first six legs. They had earned 58,000 pesos ($11,931) and fountain pens, radios, razors, beer, wine, shoes and hats, put up by local merchants and automobile clubs. Only one outsider, a veteran driver named Juan Fangio, managed to muscle in on their monopoly - and paid dearly for it. In a road duel with Oscar, Fangio's car overturned. Gálvez raced on, not stopping to help. (Fangio cracked...
...single leg, but he had won the first section of the Gran Premio and its first prize of 114,000 pesos ($23,450). Said Domingo, chewing on a big cigar: "I kept my eyes on the road, that's all." The race had cost ten lives (one driver, two mechanics, seven bystanders), left nearly 100 drivers stranded along the road, practically ruined 138 good automobiles. What cars were left would now be shipped to Lima, Peru, where the second and shorter section of the Gran Premio, back over the mountains to Luján, near Buenos Aires, would begin...
Last week, when De Sabata limped to the podium (he has a game leg), bowed to the audience, then returned to the orchestra, he reminded some in the audience of his master. De Sabata, who is 56, is 25 years younger and considerably taller than Toscanini, with a face like a Caesar. But from the rear, he has the same pink, bald scalp ringed with white...
...quarterback Bill Henry runing the show for three periods with one eye sealed tight by a scratch; Captain Kenny O'Donnell scoring what proved to be the winning touchdown with his fractured leg in a plaster cast; third string center Chuck Glynn saving a touchdown by knocking Keller out of bounds on the Harvard two on fourth down; third-string tailback Jim Kenary intercepting a Furse pass on the Harvard seven; and above all, it was the finesse with which everybody carried out his assignment, whether it was blocking, tackling, or running. "The most beautiful drilled team I've seen...
Although Noonan and Shafer were put out of action early in the game, they are in good condition now . . . Noonan suffered a concession while being piled up by the Yale secondary, and Shafer hurt his leg on a line plunge . . . a typical reason why Valpey is so popular with his athletes was provided towards the end of the game, when Art cleared the Harvard bench, enabling 47 nice to win varsity H's.WINGBACK HAL MOFFIE, who raced 80 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage Saturday against Yale. It was the third long touchdown run the Moff...