Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half pints in the pub. She employed Ridgley, dubbed "Tinker" by his cronies, as her gardener, started village tongues to wagging when she drove about the countryside with him last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts player. "Miss Ishbel" has her own team of dart throwers which she pits against teams from neighboring pubs. Tinker is her captain. "I think darts a very clean and fine sport. I wish to encourage the game," she once explained...
Born in Toronto 27 years ago, Dave Kerr started to skate as soon as he could toddle, played organized hockey (for boys up to 15) when he was 9, was a star player in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association when he was 12. He got his high-school education (and an "expense account") by playing hockey at Iroquois Falls for the Abitibi Paper Co., which made a practice of rounding up the best available amateurs to keep its employes in good temper during a long Canadian winter. He went to McGill University while playing for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association...
...summer, Dave Kerr works for a Toronto stockbroker, plays tennis and handball to keep in trim. In a sport which batters and bruises players so badly that the average hockey player is forced to retire after five years, he is outstanding. Only one stitch has been taken in his anatomy in the past four years. Famed Ching Johnson in twelve seasons of big-league hockey has had bones broken in 27 different parts of his body. Even more outstanding may be the records Dave Kerr establishes by the time he is Ching Johnson...
...early days of the century. Trained on Montreal's corner-lot rinks, where the game was played with tin cans and tree-branches, Lester Patrick went on to star at McGill University.* In 1909, the year after the sport was first professionalized, he became the most publicized player in Canada when he got $3,000 for playing twelve games for the famed Renfrew Millionaires...
...fully celebrated in song & story, swing music has been neglected in the graphic arts. But circulating among swing fans in Chicago last week were a number of scrupulous lithographs on the life of swing. They were the work of one George von Physter, an oldtime doghouse slapper (string bass player) who went to Hollywood as a designer, returned to the smalltime bands with an itch to make drawings of them. The results were so deep-scarred with authenticity that swing musicians in Chicago last week had them tacked over their beds. Included: a jam session in a cheap hotel room...