Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swank comforts of Hialeah and Santa Anita are not for them. But this year, for the first time, the gyps went south for the winter. A race track, refurbished lor them, opened in the pine woods 16 miles from Tampa. Even its name was magic to shivering gyps: Sunshine Park...
Track Slow. All was not sunny at Sunshine Park. On opening day a handful of customers showed up. It soon became a financial rarity: a track that was losing money. And Florida's cloudy weather this cold winter did not help. Yet except for a few gyps who "hopped" their horses, the racing was about as honest as it is anywhere-and like the big tracks, under state supervision...
While most major league baseball team move northward next week in preparation for their season openers, the Varsity baseball team will be proceeding in a southerly direction, inaugurating the 1947 campaign with a five-game tour which opens at College Park, Maryland, on Tuesday. The University of Maryland, will be the party of the second part...
...squads to be met by the Varsity, both Maryland and Navy have been outdoors for longer periods than the Crimson, and the College Park squad has already opened its season with a 9 to 3 victory over Drexel on Thursday. The Middies, who play their first game on Saturday against Vermont, boast a seasoned pitcher in right-hander Ron Burton. Little is known about Penn or Army, although the Cadets are captained by outfielder Glenn Davis, he of stage, screen, and gridiron
...Crimson ten will inaugurate the season with their annual spring trip into Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland, the heart of the American lacrosse country, opening April 1 with Drexel at Philadelphia. April 3 will find them playing the University of Maryland at College Park, and on April 5 the Navy game will bring the trip to a close at Annapolis. The boys from the warmer climes will have the decided advantage of several weeks additional outdoor practice. Win, lose, or draw, Maddux figures that the trip will provide needed experience for the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League competition which awaits...