Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman incrosse outfit will clash with the Boston Lacrosse Club second team in an informal encounter on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Madison Sayler, 1931 coach will play on the visiting team against his charges...
Miller has never been popular. The people who look down from the roof of Madison Square Garden at hockey games had given him a nickname-"Red Light" Miller, drawing their title from the signal that flashes when a goal-guard lets in a shot. They had given Miller what is locally known as the Bronx Cheer, a huzzah of sarcastic intention. Rattled, Miller begged to be sent back to the minor leagues "where they wouldn't razz him." Now he was called to take the most important position on a team tied with the favorites for the hockey championship...
Over the Ohio River at Madison, Ind., there is use for a bridge; over the Missouri at Hermann, Mo. and Courtney, Mo. are similar uses; and at all three places public authorities, too poor to build bridges at common expense, recently authorized private individuals to build toll bridges...
...watchers at a six-day race show spots from the drop that runs down a bottle of pop when you drink out of it. Their heads keep turning from side to side as if they were rapidly reading the page of a book a block wide. All week in Madison Square Garden drops fell onto coats and faces turned from side to side, from side to side, all morning, all afternoon, all night, for six days. And round the pale pine dish the riders pedaled, jammed, sprinted, drank beef juice out of paper cups, pasted their burned legs with plaster...
...There is no one I'd rather see licked than that lummox," said the holder of a ringside seat ($22.50) as Jack Sharkey climbed through the ropes last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, to fight "Honest John" Risko, Cleveland "rubber man." Experts had picked Sharkey. So had gamblers. Risko was tough, they said, but Sharkey was tough and fancy. When the bell rang, Risko made Sharkey miss a left, landed a left to the jaw. All through the fight he hooked to the chin and made Sharkey jerk his legs up when he hit him" in the stomach...