Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain intervenes to deaden the track before Friday, track fans may see a new world's record in the event. Oscar Hedlund, coach of Morton Jenkins, expressed the opinion that on a fast track, with Jenkins leading the way. Beccali may break the tape in record time...
...Rain made the 6½-furlong straightaway that cuts diagonally across the main track at Belmont Park, N. Y. a brown belt of mud as 14 2-year-olds were saddled for the richest race in the world, the $100,000 Futurity. At the start, almost out of sight of the grandstand, Rosemont took the lead. Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat Eye caught Rosemont as the field crossed the main track. Then Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun shot out ahead, opened a gap of four lengths between himself and Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Balladier...
Welterweight. Bernard Rossofsky (Barney Ross) won the welterweight title from Jimmy McLarnin last June. They signed for a return match. Scheduled for last fortnight, the fight was postponed by rain. Next day, Ross rested. McLarnin continued training. It rained again, caused another postponement. When rain caused a third postponement. Ross demanded a week's delay to celebrate Rosh haShanah. Last week both fighters resumed training, weighed in for the fourth time. Rain caused a fourth postponement. Two days later, on a cold cloudy evening, they climbed through the ropes of Madison Square Garden's Long Island City ring...
When the Morro Castle's SOS flashed into Manhattan, weather along the coast was vile. The average commercial airplane pilot would have hesitated long before flying a cameraman offshore in the dark, wind, and rain. But International and Acme had classified lists of pilots, including certain ones who had the equipment and the courage to fly through anything. At about 7 a. m. two such pilots took off from New York with International and Acme cameramen, returned three hours later within five minutes of each other, with magnificent pictures of the burning vessel. Somehow AP was left...
...Mason, Ohio, G. L. Gerard heard mountain fiddlers playing a tune from inside a rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...