Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baxter Mile in the New York Athletic Club games Venzke, Cunningham and Bonthron were running together for the first time. Their contest promised the most exciting mile race since Nurmi visited the U. S. ten years ago. Speculators got $10 for $2 tickets. A crowd of 16,000 packed Madison Square Garden...
...years ago when a referee at a Madison Square Garden bout gave Jack Sharkey a decision over Max Schmeling for the world's heavyweight championship, Schmeling's manager swore never to fight for the Garden again. His vindictiveness had two results: 1) Instead of Sharkey, whom he might have beaten, Schmeling last summer fought Max Baer and was knocked out. 2) Instead of aging Tommy Loughran, whom he might have fought in Miami, Schmeling was matched in Philadelphia last week with young Steve Hamas, onetime Penn State footballer...
Last week's decision made it look as if Madison Square Garden, whose Miami bout between Loughran and Champion Camera was postponed until Feb. 28, had temporarily ceased to be an important promoter of fights. It also indicated that Schmeling had finished his career as a first-rate fighter; that young Hamas, who took up boxing four years ago to help pay his brother's doctors, was a possible opponent for ebullient Maxie Baer next summer...
...goal so rarely that, when he did, his teammates would double up with laughter. When "Rollie" Williams went to Iowa as assistant, he sorely upset Wisconsin's famed eccentric coach, Dr. Walter E. ("Little Doctor") Meanwell. Dr. Meanwell always suspected Iowa's Coach Barry, who came from Madison, Wis., of trafficking with spies on Wisconsin strategies. When Williams joined the Barry camp, Dr. Meanwell was convinced of the worst. But this season, when Dr. Meanwell was subjected to hot alumni fire for his team's poor showing, loyal "Rollie'' Williams wrote the Press in defense...
...Brokaw, Auchincloss and Gould. He produces 2,500 pairs a week, makes shoes studded with precious stones, piped with gold and silver, painted with aluminum to shine in the dark. His prices begin at $14.75, sometimes reach $500. Last year when he gave up his retail store on Madison Avenue and confined himself to manufacturing, Saks Fifth Avenue signed a contract for an exclusive agency in Manhattan. Outside Manhattan, Delman shoes are sold in 30 cities through such agencies as Sommer & Kaufmann of San Francisco, Neiman-Marcus Co. of Dallas, C. Crawford Hollidge of Boston...