Word: mcnamaras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James B. McNamara never intended to be a dynamiter. After he became one, he never intended to kill anybody. He grew up in Ohio, in a big family, in an Irish neighborhood, where the boys ran in packs and the little kids peeked through saloon doors to see what the big kids were doing. He was always the last boy to run, was consequently the only one caught...
Bosworth's performance was the best of the evening as the Crimson outfit limited the Young Christian men to one first and one second place. McNamara of the visitors eked out a win in the dives over Sophomore Brad Patterson despite the fact that Patterson dove better than ever before in varsity competition. He scored 96.3 points to McNamara's 98.5 total. Shaw McCutcheon, regular first string diver was absent from the lineup because of a torn muscle in his shoulder. He will be ready to make the trip to Annapolis this week...
...Meter Dive-Won by McNamara (Y), 98.5 points; second, Brad Patterson (H), 96.3 points; third, Phil Sharples (H), 69.8 points...
...attract customers to their 30-day meet, they will do away with scoring, the timehonored, time-wasting method of starting,* and substitute the recently invented McNamara starting gate in which drivers, separated by dangling ropes, are given 15 seconds to jockey for position and cross the line. The promoters will also do away with the equally hallowed custom of heat racing (two out of three heats to decide the winner instead of one race). They will lay out a half-mile track, popular with railbirds because the horses pass the grandstand twice, and install an electric tote board and apparatus...
...meter dive: Won by G. Dana (H) 97.6 points; second, McNamara (B) 89.3; third, C. Sagenkahn...