Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wheeler 1G.B. and Alden Briggs '25 will meet L. H. Bondi '25 and Donald Stralem '24 this afternoon on the Jarvis Courts at 1.30 o'clock in the fifth round or semi-finals of the Jackson Cup doubles championship...
Miss Stirling made nimble work of Mrs. Goss and entered the finals. Miss Cummings pulled up from dormie two after a ragged round and caught Mrs. Vanderbeck at the 20th hole...
...spectators got their money's worth. When a bomb started the race, the pilots swooped into the air like bullets. The machines seemed to flash across the course. On the last heat, in going round the pylons the pilots banked so sharply that they seemed to rest in the air on their wing tips...
When " Al" Williams went round the course he felt sleepy. On turning pylons, his brain refused to function for several seconds owing to the terrific pressure of centrifugal force. On the last leg he forgot he had finished and went around once again. When he got out of his cockpit, his legs had gone to sleep. But he forgot sleep, fatigue, grease, wind and dirt, when his chief Admiral Moffett slammed his own hat on the pilot's head and asked some one to "give the boy a drink...
...fans who were present saw neither "Babe" Ruth or Casey Stengel clout the ball for the circuit, but Dugan of the Yankees made a round of bases, saving the spectators from disappointment...