Word: pounder
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Forest Ranger Walter Arthur Woody, a broad-faced, broad-shouldered, broad-beamed 225-pounder, known as "The Ranger" to every Georgia mountaineer...
Tackles Rollin Fisher, a 200-pounder from Andover, and the son of Robert P. Fisher, who coached Varsity elevens from 1919 to 1925, and George Hibbard, a 218-pound Brookline High product, bolster a line which seems lighter than usual. Charles Cowen, a fullback from Exeter, and Walter Wilson, Mercersburg halfback, are backfield candidates with fine prep school athletic records
Last June, when the brass hats of the U.S. Golf Association, on the last day of the U. S. Open, ordered the word DISQUALIFIED chalked up against the name of Edward Oliver, they did not realize what they were starting. Edward Oliver, a greasy-haired 230-pounder called "Porky," had teed off (with two other players in his threesome) a half hour before the time assigned for his last round. That was contrary to the rules of the U.S.G.A. Even though Ed Oliver's total score (for the four rounds) was 287-a tie with Lawson Little and Gene...
...York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs of a flyweight, the shoulders of a lightweight, the forearms of a middleweight. Somewhere in those forearms there was an arsenal of TNT. Seven of his opponents in a row had fallen like tenpins...
...Carolina's brown, brick Central State Prison just a few blocks from the business centre of Raleigh. Started eight months ago by six-foot, 240-pound Ren Hoek as part of the recreational activities of which he was director, the show began with a kazoo player, a piano pounder, a drummer. Inmates took part on the program only as a reward for good behavior the preceding week, soon made it the "shortest half hour of the week" for their 900 fellow prisoners...