Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richards in the other, they expected that these four players would move smoothly through to the semifinals; they expected that the dashing foreigners-Borotra of France, Alonzo of Spain, Anderson of Australia-would fall by the wayside; that William Johnston would, as in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, be runner up, and that he would, as in those years, be defeated...
Lounging about the tool-house, like their near relations who sweep circus rings between acts, the Oakmont gangsters watched early arrivals take trial gouges here and there in the 6,860-yard course. An early comer was George Von Elm of Los Angeles, runner-up last year at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia) to Champion Bobby Jones. Deliberation writ upon his countenance and grim revenge, Von Elm played four rounds, including a 72 with a 7 in it, then took Mrs. Von Elm over to Manhattan where he bided his hour...
...school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank owned by his uncle. He went to Manhattan looking for a job, but did not find it, went on to Bridgeport, Conn., where he got a job as bank runner. He was promoted to bookkeeper, then teller. He heard of a new bank opening in Manhattan (the Astor Place Bank) and by sheer persistence worried its cashier into giving him a job. He was paying teller of that bank when he had his first experience with crime. A man came...
...better-than-the-average golfer. James D. Standish Jr. of Detroit was runner-up to Charles Evans in the 1914 and 1915 Western Amateur Championships...
...yard dash was credited to one Alfred ("Truck") Miller of Har- vard, a 200-lb. runner. Angry spectators near the starting line asserted that Miller, though no hurdler, had managed to jump the pistol...