Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feature races of the Navy encounter will be the 50 and 100 yard dashes where George Wiley, Middie Sophomore speedster, will meet an up-and-coming Jim Curwon, Lonnie Stowell, or Dave Stearns. Captain Rick Cutler should not have much trouble in scoring a double in the 220 and 440, but Jim Conger may push Frannie Powers a bit in both events...
...offer: a $45,000 bonus, a two-year contract at $10,000 a year, an assured job at second base under the tutorial eye of old Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack). His was not only the biggest bonus in baseball history ($20,000 more than the previous top, given Rick Ferrell by the Browns in 1929), but it made Rookie McCoy the highest-paid baseballer of the year. His 1940 income of $55,000 will be more than the salary of Joe Di Maggio, Jimmy Foxx or Hank Greenberg...
...hope for victory was crushed when the Ulenmen took every first and second place in the next four events, finally assuring a Harvard victory with Bosworth's win in the 150-yard dorsal race in 1:40.7, his best time. The overwhelming display of power was featured by Captain Rick Cutler's 2:17.8 first in the furlong, Davey (Club) Stearns' triumph in the 50, George Dana's upset victory in the dive with 103.53 points, and Jim Curwen's a 55.6 100 free style...