Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aicibiades E. Sophos 'SS won the novice foil championship of the Amateur Fencers League of America held yesterday afternoon in the Peroy Salle d'Armes in Cambridge. William B. Berasenbrug go '37 was runner up in the competition...
...yard run there is lanky Al Hanlom whom Jaakko Mikkola has characterized as a brilliant runner. He should be good for a first place without even straining himself. The 300-yard dash is outstanding only for the calibre of the men in it on pro. The blue runners should blaze through here unless Mikkola is forced to call on Hanlon...
High on the list of Wellesley's pet aversion stands the crew-cut. "Awful!" they say. "They look bristly in front and half-shaved behind." "Only about one boy in fifty has a head well-shaped enough to get away with it." A close runner-up is the emphatically-voiced dislike of moustaches. The "No's" boomed back with unhesitating rapidity and with no exceptions whatsoever. "They're much too young for moustaches," was a typical comment...
...beautiful exhibition of swordsmanship the champion downed Alessandroni, the runner-up and his most formidable opponent, by a score of 5-2. Allesandroni was national champion in 1934 and has been a member of the Olympic squad since 1931. Both he and Lewis have sure berths on the U. S. team...
...Forty-eight-year-old William F. ("Willie") Hoppe, grey-haired boy wonder of Billiards in 1898, 15-time world champion at 18.2 balkline billiards, three-time champion at 18.1 balkline billiards, current cushion caroms champion, in a challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since...