Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he reached the quarter finals, Lo Wenching was the favorite to win the championship. Then he was beaten by one of the smallest players in the tournament, Abraham Krakauer of New York University. Krakauer, an unseeded player whose entry had been accepted only when someone else withdrew, played Coleman Clark of Chicago in the final...
...Toronto Maple Leafs have the youngest forward line in the National Hockey League?Conacher, Primeau and Harvey Jackson, youngest player in the league and its leading scorer. In the league season, they lost most of their games away from home but only four in Toronto's new hockey rink, Maple Leaf Gardens. This was to their advantage last week when they played the New York Rangers in the finals for the Stanley Cup. The last three of the five-game series were scheduled for Toronto. The Maple Leafs started by winning the first game, 6 to 4, in New York...
...third prominent candidate for court honors during the next few months is W. C. Thompson '32, number seven for Harvard last year; Thompson looked unusually good this winter in the Canadian indoor championship playoffs, when matched against George Lott, Davis Cup player, who was continually forced to the wall by the Harvard man. Lott finally won the match, but Thompson's performance excited considerable comment on the part of experts watching the play...
Dancers in Diego Rivera costumes proceeded to enact the story of H. P. Russian Alexis Dolinoff appeared first, wearing an electric coil or two and a welder's visor. On his back the letters H. P. identified him like a football player. The libretto said he was "in the plenitude of his intellect, sentiments and physical powers...
...reddish face. He has been world champion three times, won many an international tournament with his artful sidearm stroke. Long-nosed Albert Poensgen, a onetime jurist and now a well-paid employe in Berlin's Ministry of Finance, is considered by his confreres to be the luckiest player in the world as well as one of the best. At 51 he has been playing in international tournaments for 21 years, won the world championship nine times. Last week the three best players in the world, and six others who thought they might be, went to Manhattan to play each...