Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week two cars carrying the duelists, their seconds and their doctors, drove out of Paris. In a clearing in the Forest of Senart, Fèvre and Merindol got out and took their positions. Merindol had frantically practiced saber fighting for four days, but he was no match for Fèvre's skill. After a few parries the heavy cavalry sword dropped from his bleeding hand. The umpire pronounced him fit to fight on, but had to stop the duel a few seconds later. Fèvre was striking out so furiously (see cut") that he feared...
...horses, a cow-pony type bred for a short, dizzy burst of speed. Still, Fred Hooper figured that his thoroughbred, Olympia, could run a faster short burst than any horse he had ever seen. No one knows exactly how much money changed hands that day on the quarter-mile match race between Stella Moore, the quarter-horse from Texas, and Olympia, the finely tempered thoroughbred. The race-track experts themselves leaned toward the quarter-horse. But tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) Fred Hooper quietly covered all bets-and saw his thoroughbred win by a neck...
...lineup for the match this afternoon will be Don Blackner, Gerry Murphy, Dave Aldrich, Charlie Thompson, Jack Faircloth, and John Loeb, playing in singles. The doubles teams will be Murphy and Chase, Peterson, Thompson and Wooster Wood, and Roger Swanson and Peter Bien...
Freshman golfers play their first match of the season at 2 p.m. today, at Exeter...
...squad has four strong men, who consistenly score near 80' and three weaker players. Exeter, which also plays its first match today, has a lineup that quickly tapers off from good golfers to mediocre ones...