Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bird men," gasped the native runner. "Dead...
Sergeant Morgan ducked inside, called Dr. Henry Greist, Superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission Hospital. The tale the native runner panted out was hardly credible. Yet it might be true...
...people who cheer loudest when you succeed are those who throw pop bottles the hardest when you fail. . . . Loud cheers make heroes. Pop bottles make martyrs. ... I knew an old priest once. His hair was white, his face shone. ... I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base...
...truck farmer, Miss Didrikson had a narrow escape in the quarterfinals, managed to win on the 19th hole. Next day, while Helen Hicks was losing to Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who later won the tournament, Babe Didrikson was beaten by able Elaine Rosenthal Reinhardt of Winnetka, Ill., runner-up at 15 for the National Amateur Championship of 1914. Experts agreed that Babe Didrikson can already outdrive any other woman golfer, that she would need another year of practice before her short game and putting are as good...
...Runner-up was Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R.'s leather-lunged Joe Lahr...