Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Freeman, Cleveland welterweight: the world's championship of his class on the decision of a hometown referee in a 15-round bout with flashy black Jack Thompson of Oakland, Calif, who had him on the floor in the second round, made him reel in the seventh, and kept on even terms with him all through...
Critics had predicted a runaway for the Americans. This did not happen. Through the first half, and until the seventh chukker. the Englishmen made it hard. Lacey's Argentine ponies outran the bigger U. S. mounts for a while; first Guest, then Roark and Hitchcock broke mallets. Lacey stole the ball from Hopping and Hitchcock for beautiful shots. What the English team lacked most was an accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods...
When Chicagoans trooped down to the South Side to witness the wrigglings of Fatima ("The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter") on the Midway, to gasp at gorgeous pyrotechnic displays, to parade through the handsome plaster buildings of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White at the Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu...
...came out after the rest period and took the fourth set after 28 terrific games. By all accepted tennis psychology that should have meant the end of Doeg & Lott, but they stopped the rush. They felt that Allison was weakening and played for him until he cracked in the seventh game of the last set. Lott & Doeg went on to take the match, keep the title. Score...
...Gallant Fox, undejected by his beating in the Travers: the Saratoga Cup in a majestic gallop, his seventh win in eight major races this season. His earnings now total...