Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, by earning the $6,000 place money, she boosted her earnings to $276,120, and became the top money-winning filly of all time. Runner-up: Top Flight with...
...year's home run and R.B.I. champion, began swishing air almost exclusively this year, Jolly Cholly left him strictly alone. Nicholson still has plenty of threat value, and four other Cubs-Hack, Johnson, Cavarretta, Pafko-have better than .300 averages. (Cavarretta's .363 mates him the present runner-up to Boston's Tommy Holmes for batting honors...
...Kazoo" finals it came in handy against Southpaw Bernard ("Tut") Bartzen, runner-up to Falkenburg last year. Tut learned to play the game by going up against a bangboard daily in the little Texas town of San Angelo, where competition was nonexistent, so he was used to seeing his best efforts returned. Flam's disconcerting returns earned him the title...
Records notwithstanding, by knocking the cover off the ball everywhere else. Tommy Holmes was far & away the hitter of the year. For 78 games he had a .396 average that nobody in either league could challenge. He had also batted in more runs (69) than anyone else, and was runner-up in homers, with 14. He had gone hitless in just six of his 78 games (three at Wrigley Field...
...Runner-up to the Med School in graduate enrollment this summer is the School of Education, swelled by secondary school teachers, who are taking their summer vacations, to a figure of 262, nine of whom are veterans...