Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parnell really buzzed the day that young Ben, who had ridden cow ponies on his father's farm since he was four, thundered down Main Street in an impromptu match race for $5 a side. There also came the day when a riot was threatened after he single-handedly attacked a group of Italians and felled one of them with a stone; his father hustled Ben off to a logging camp until things cooled...
...lanky Texan who plays Bud Ager in top match of the day, has a steady all-around style that has made him almost unbeatable this spring. But Ager has won his last three matches and Coach Barnaby calls him "as improved as any player I've seen in a long time...
...Yale match is the marathon of Ivy tennis matches, for instead of the usual six singles and three doubles, the two teams will play ten singles and five doubles. As a result much will depend on the ability of the green lower echelon men to win their matches...
Following pre-game predictions closely, the match was in doubt to the end with the Indians dominating the doubles, and Coach Jack Barnaby's varsity holding a slight edge in the singles...
...match was a league affair played on the Soldiers Field courts...