Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's gilded old Auditorium, built for the voices of Caruso and Adelina Patti, echoed last week with the contralto exclamations of bowling pins. The best bowler in the U.S., 46-year-old Johnny Crimmins of Detroit, was trying for the national match-game championship. During the year, he had won 15 major tournaments, averaged 207 pins per game, earned $5,000 in prizes. He was out to beat 33-year-old Ned Day, who had held the title since...
Handling the job in the best Co-coanut Grove tradition, the fire-bugs held a match to the most inflammable of the placards, and then fled the scene while the blaze envelopped the board and charred the entry. Most violent reaction to this bit of sabotage came from the proctor, Frank "the fruit" Newman '42, who quite violently and properly resented the flaming zeal with which they were pressing revenge...
...best answer in this book is not the Beards', but the contribution of Philosopher Max Otto of the University of Wisconsin: "The vast economic, material body of the world lacks a mind to match it, and is not animated by a commensurate moral spirit. This backwardness is the tragic inadequacy of our time. It is the problem which, more than any other, calls upon philosophy for new vision and creativeness...
Coach Jack Barnaby's squash team stroked its way over an outclassed sextet of West Pointers to a 6-0 victory without dropping a single game at the Linden Street courts Saturday afternoon. This was the first intercollegiate match for both squads, and the visitors were further handicapped by not having a coach...
...third position, Wally McDonald came through to outscore George Lundberg 15-8, 15-8, 15-10. Tom Baker took his match 15-6, 15-8, 15-10, while Dudley Palmer rang up the most decisive score, 15-7, 15-8, 15-8, over Nate Greenberg. George Clay, playing number six, won by a 15-7, 15-8, 15-11 count over Paul Wheeler...