Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beatrice ("Bea") Gottlieb, trim Manhattan blonde from Tuckahoe, N.Y., arrived home and told the newspapers how she played golf with the Prince of Wales, beat him (TIME, Aug. 14). She "just happened" to be playing the same courses he was playing, several days in a row. One day he asked his private professional, towering Archie Compston, to arrange a match. Mrs. Alastair Mackintosh made it a foursome and they played three rounds on as many courses, Miss Gottlieb and Wales playing for a ball a hole. After halving two matches, she finally won with...
...wrote her odds at 5 to 2, figured her runner-up would be a New Jersey colt named Brown Berry, driven by a 50-year-old Kentuckian named Fred Egan. In the draw for positions, important in trotting, Mary Reynolds got third place from the rail in the front row of seven sulkies. On the outside of the second row of five was Brown Berry. Twelve sulkies pulled by seven colts, two geldings and three fillies circled on Goshen's drying track in systematic confusion for the start of the first heat. Since a trotter must have a trotting...
...acquainted with their characters gradually, naturally, by seeing and hearing them in action. Author Robert Smythe Hichens, 68, who wrote his first novel, The Coastguard's Secret, in 1881 and his most popular one, The Garden of Allah, in 1905, likes to lay his puppets in a row, dissect them body & soul in advance. In The Paradine Case he takes most of 332 prolix pages for this job. But the reader who gets through these may feel repaid by some 200 pages about the trial itself, mostly swift, naked, exciting questions & answers...
...With the score 5-7, 6-2, 3-5 against her in her match with Peggy Scriven, Helen Jacobs let the English girl get as far as 30-all. Then, playing pat-ball tennis to match her opponent's, she won four games in a row for set, match and series - 4 matches to 3 after Alice Marble and Marjone Gladman Van Ryn lost the doubles...
...Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen's regatta; at Chicago...