Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD GEORGETOWN Mays, 2b. c.f., Evers Thacher, 3b. l.f., Kilgallen Wood, s.s. s.s., McNamara Lupien, r.f. r.f., King Gleason, c.f. c., Rapp McCaffrey, l.f. 3b., Hutchinson Sheldon, 1b. 2b., Lione Fincke, c. 1b., Carolan Sprague or Taylor, p. p., Heaney or Noznesky...
...Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury-shadowing in the Sinclair-Fall trial in 1927 he was acquitted on appeal. He once said: "Private detectives as a class are the biggest lot of blackmailing thieves that ever went...
Only eight of the 15 teams which started the race were left at the finish. Old Reggie McNamara who, out of respect for his age, is usually permitted to hold the lead for a day or two at the beginning, was still ahead with his large red-haired British Columbian partner, Torchy Peden. Not satisfied with a point-lead over the Belgian team of Van Nevele and de Lille, McNamara and Peden stole a lap in the last ten minutes of the race and held it to the end. Behind the Belgians came the reckless French team of Letourner...
Oldest active six-day bicycle rider, McNamara boasts that he has broken his collar bone six times, all his ribs at least once, that he has 47 scars. One of them, running along his right cheek, gives his dark and friendly face a dangerous look which he enhances by wearing black sweaters and scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called...
Most celebrated of McNamara's confreres is Franco Georgetti, a small knock-kneed Italian who finished a sulky last in last week's race, but failed to butt his head against a wall for losing as he did once. Obviously heir to Iron McNamara, Georgetti was once pierced by an eight-inch splinter which he sent to his father to be exhibited. He earns $28,000 per year, has a barber shave him every day of the race, frequently dines on rice, lobster and beer with Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company...