Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 76 days of riding on the same trains, living at the same hotels, thrashing out their three-cushion billiard feud in 13 cities, Champion Welker Cochran and Challenger Willie Hoppe were sick & tired of each other. Throughout their ivory marathon, the score had stayed uncannily close, and toward the end the two masters fell to quarreling like poolroom sharpies. In San Francisco last week they finally reached the end of the line. Cochran first erased Hoppe's slim, eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand...
...first marathon (490 B.C.) killed the winner, Pheidippides.* But skinny, bandy-legged Johnny Kelley scarcely worked up a sweat last week in the Boston Athletic Association's 49th annual marathon. Trotting briskly down asphalt Exeter Street, he waved a victor's clenched fist to the crowd, kissed his father and wheezed: "Pa, I made it." An oversize laurel wreath kept slipping over his ears...
...miles from Marathon to Athens to bring the news of Miltiades' victory over the Persians...
...yesterday at the hands of the NROTC Company 3A, 43 to 25, sinking still lower into last place. Also trounced 41 to 35, the Gold Coasters gave another boost towards the championship to a high riding Standish Freshman five led by Dick Firth, who netted 15 points. In this marathon, the score was tied at the end of the regulation time and it took two overtimes before the affair was finally settled...
Hill & Daler. In India, Aboo Nagha, 60, whose daily diet consists of one meal, three cups of tea, no alcohol, 25 cigarets, was honored at the Bombay Olympic Games for finishing a 26-mile marathon, deserted by his wife, who considered him "unsatisfying...