Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round, robin that followed, he and Crimmins both bowed to a comparative upstart, 25-year-old, 230-lb. Connie Schwoegler of Madison, Wis. Rolling a very slow ball with a slight hook, Schwoegler averaged 217 for 72 games. His score of 368.37 was 36 points better than Runner-up Frank Benkovic's, 39 better than Challenger Crimmins', 49 better than Champion...
Last week Connie, stopped by seafarers' traditions against male ship sponsors, looked on while his runner-up smashed a champagne bottle across the Archbishop Lamy's bow. Said he: "Well, I'd have collected the scrap anyhow. I had two brothers captured on Bataan...
...name of a neutral vessel, but in misspelling the name tipped its game. When Allied warships opened fire the crew scuttled the ship. Seventy-eight Germans were captured. From them it was learned that the ship, en route from Japan to Germany with a valuable cargo, was a blockade runner...
...lesser characters, rehearsing for this one performance for weeks, put on a good show. Veteran Harold McSpaden's winning total of 272 (67-70-69-66) was only three strokes higher than Byron Nelson's winning score over the same course last year. Runner-up was Johnny Revolta with...
January 24, the runner-up, escapes the general examination period but falls into the middle of midyears. It was probably preferred because it falls nearer the end of the term. The weekend of the 17th drew only half as many votes as either of the other two, since it comes at the beginning of the midyear examinations and apparently lacks the advantages of the other...