Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as Tom Dewey looked forward to his first week's vacation in 17 months and to his campaign for re-election in November, no shrewd political dopester counted him out of the 1948 Presidential race...
Anything can happen in a horse race-and Derby favorites have flopped 50% of the time. Tipsters last week were full of white hopes and dark horses. Other doting owners (some 18 in all) would not pay the $1,000 entry fee just to see their colors flutter on Derby Day. The Downs was alive with regional prides: Marine Victory, the Maryland horse; Pellicle, Kentucky's own; and a big Texas-born chestnut named Assault, which had won Jamaica's Wood Memorial Stakes-a proving ground for five Derby winners-in wagon-horse time. Assault is known...
Dunster has already clinched its section of the hardball league and will play either Adams or Kirkland in the finals next week. Today at 4:30 o'clock the House crews will race on the Charles in the only intramural crew race planned...
While this meet will be the only intercollegiate race of the year for the Blue crew, inactive since 1942, it will climax a formal schedule of four races for Tom Bolles' charges, who are now priming for their Saturday meeting with Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T. on the Charles. The race will start at the Cottage Farm Bridge, near the Tech boathouse, and finish on the approaches to the West Boston Bridge off the Community Yacht Club float...
Herb Fritts win the 100 yard dash in 10.4 seconds with Bob Cameron taking fourth. Sandwiched in between were Haire and Kennett of Rhode Island. The half mile was the closest race of the day. In the backstretch Bill Ellis, of Harvard, had the lead and George Finn of Holy Cross was second. Around the turn, mile winner O'Leary turned on the heat but down the stretch it was O'Brien of Harvard who managed to grab the lead and heat out the competition to the tape. His time was 2:2.4. O'Leary was second and Goldstein...