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...points ahead of their opponents, and then exhibit their fancy ball handling, such as spinning the ball on fingertips, flipping it between legs, rolling it up one arm and down the other. Star stunt man is 37-year-old Inman Jackson, a 6 ft. 3 in. 200-pounder, who serves as the only substitute on the team, gets $300 a month plus a percentage of the gate receipts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Captain Lee Ackerman of the Yardling grapplers won a decision in the 165 class from W. H. Ober '41 to warm up for his bout with Ray Stone in the 175-pounder group. This fight was the feature of the evening, and Ackerman finally edged out a decision to take the two crowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEE ACKERMAN '43 WINS TWO WRESTLING CROWNS | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

...months ago, Houston-born James Newton Demaret, an apple-cheeked, happy-go-lucky 200-pounder, was just another golf pro named Jimmy. Like most professional golfers, he was born on the wrong side of the fairway, worked as caddy, caddy master and assistant pro before getting a job as head pro at Houston's Bras-Burn Country Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jimmy | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Daughaday decision Stephenson of Penn and Rohrer of Penn State, storming his way into the final round. Other Crimson entrants did not fare so well, however, as highly rated Ted Schoenberg dropped an overtime decision to Princeton's Captain Harding in the 121 pound class and 135 pounder Bruce Richardson dropped a verdict to Hick of Syracuse in the overtime period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAUGHADAY WINS WAY INTO EASTERN FINALS | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

Though little, and only 13 years old-and unable to afford a gymnasium of its own-Brooklyn's Long Island University has for several years had tip-top basketball teams. Coached by Accounting Teacher Clair Bee, a nervous little 150-pounder who never was any great shakes as an athlete but is a generalissimo at working out strategies on a wooden board, Brooklyn's Blackbirds have chalked up 149 victories in 159 games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bee's Blackbirds | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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