Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miler Glenn Cunningham: his first big two mile race, beating Indoor Record Holder Don Lash in 9:11.8; an invitation event at the Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. meet in Manhattan. I.C. 4-A winner among 28 Eastern colleges: Manhattan College...
...Tennist Wayne Sabin of Portland, Ore.: the national indoor singles championship, in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory ; a hint of Tennist Sabin's Davis Cup aims...
...B.R.T., which went into receivership in 1918. It emerged as Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp., which now operates a subway connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan and another between Manhattan and Queens, as well as numerous elevateds, bus routes and trolleys in Brooklyn and Queens. B.M.T. makes money ($4,508,462 in fiscal...
...laid partly to continuance of the 5? fare, which, since the World War boosted costs, has been insufficient to pay expenses. But mostly it is due to high dividends paid in the early days and to the staggering fixed costs of its fabulous 999-year lease of Manhattan s four outmoded elevateds...
Last week a parcel of sporting characters, including No. i Manhattan Promoter Mike Jacobs (no kin to Joe), gathered in a cabana on Miami Beach and signed paunchy, dewlapped, 235-lb. Tony for a go with Champion Joe Louis on June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...