Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said last night, "There may be a game yet." He added patronizingly that the men will bat left-handed and run backwards, if they play at all. Radcliffe, anxious to repeat on the diamond their supremacy-of-the-sex demonstration in last year's crew race, said the teams were to meet in the 'Cliffe quad and carry on from there...
...Annapolis hosts registered another surprise when they finished second, a length behind, in a nine-way regatta that saw the dope rudely upset. Crimson rowers, who, with Cornell, were pre-race favorites, came in last, while the Big Red crossed the finish line in fifth place...
...should have been called a 'regretta,'" Coach Tom Bolles said yesterday, "and was an unfortunate part of the painful process of acquiring experience. The Varsity shell was definitely in the race for the first mile, and for the next 1/4 mile it seemed as though they might still be in it. But after that the boys just ran out of gas. The other boats didn't put on much of an extra sprint; we slowed down...
...Varsity race Columbia came in third ahead of Rutgers, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton...
Died. Charles William Anderson Scott, 43, British war (I) ace who thrice broke the England-Australia flight record (1931-32-34); winner of the Harmon Trophy as the best aviator of 1934, winner of the 1936 Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race; by his own hand (gunshot); in Germany...