Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most dangerous sporting events in the world is the annual Thousand Mile automobile race round Italy- from Brescia to Brescia, over roads dotted with ordinary traffic and lined with thousands of spectators. When, during the race last week, two of the 143 roaring racers zoomed off the road, killing ten bystanders and injuring 32, the Italian Government decreed an end to the race they instituted twelve years ago as a test of speed and daring...
Professional golfers are somewhat like race horses. They receive no salary for their competitive performances, are rewarded only when they finish in the money...
That Harry Cooper is still No. 1 golfer in the U. S. was conclusively demonstrated during this winter's competition (the first quarter of the 1938 race). Although slam-bang Sam Snead posted the season's lowest score for a single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop...
...innovation, started last year by the P.G.A., which shows the finishing position of top-notch professionals in every medal-play tournament of the "stake-race" class...
...Cornell, Syracuse and Tech race here; on May 21 occurs the Adams Cup event with Navy and Penn at Annapolis. Harvard faces Columbia at New York on May 28 before the Yale race on June...