Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale coach who has published the first book of import on the principles of squash since Harry Cowles' tabloid text, "The Art of Squash Racquets". Formerly assistant coach at Princeton, John Skillman is not only an expert teacher at the game, but also an active and expert player. In the past four years he has won the national professional championship twice, and was a tenacious runner-up in the other...
...performance, example and influence' as an amateur and as a man has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." There is no particular reason why these conditions should be fulfilled any better by a decathloner than by a foot-racer, polo player or yachtsman. Nonetheless, the sports experts whose poll decides the Sullivan award have come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners for the neglect with which they are usually treated. The Sullivan award was inaugurated by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1930. Decathloner Barney Berlinger...
...182Last summer Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 37-most famed living polo player, missed the international matches in England for the first time in 15 years because of pressing business affairs. He was no longer willing to leave the U. S. just for polo. Last week his business association since 1932 with Lehman Bros., big Manhattan investment banking house, matured into a partnership. His good friend Robert Lehman often plays polo with the great Hitchcock at Meadow Brook...
...white Man of the Year was Lou ("Iron Man'') Gehrig who continued his string of consecutive baseball games played with the New York Yankees to 1,808 in eleven years, making 49 home runs in 1936, helping win another World Series and being again voted "most valuable player in the American League." Black Man of the Year was Sprinter Jesse Owens. His Olympic record-championships in three individual events, one team event-has been equaled only by red-skinned Jim Thorpe in 1912 and stamps him Sport's Man of the Year...
...cotton firm clerk, then a trader, then one of the most astute traders on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was Rex, King of Carnival in the 1935 Mardi Gras, highest social honor in the city. Partner Robert E. Craig II is 38, tall, slim, and a crack contract player who enters big tournaments with his wife...