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...Wogan, a six-foot, three-inch fugitive from a fullback position, started off at center-forward for the Yardlings and in 90 seconds had scored the winning and only goal against the Milton boys. Wogan netted his first score of the year when he bulled the ball in from a scrimmage in front of the goalmouth...
These feminine plaints soughed from the microphone when Tory Candidate John Reginald Bevins jumped from his "Voice of the People" sound truck and let the people give tongue. Five minutes later Arthur James Irvine, Labor's six-foot candidate, strode up to the same housewives' queue. While he pumped hands all round, the women cheered and patted his back...
...major-league baseball teams passed the season's one-third mark last week, the leading pitcher was neither Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, Harry Brecheen nor Ewell Blackwell, nor any of the other established celebrities of the mound. On the figures, the best pitcher was a hooknosed, six-foot left-hander named Warren Spahn; habitat Braves Field, Gaffney Street, Boston...
...holes in a row to tie it up. At the 27th Willie went one up. On the next five holes Dick Chapman, playing the best golf of his career, racked up four pars and a birdie; Turnesa matched him stroke for stroke. On the 33rd Chapman faltered, missed a six-foot putt, and Turnesa took the hole. On the 34th, with a chance to stay in the running by halving, Chapman worried over his crucial putt for a full five minutes. Then he missed it. He turned to the crowd and said: "Willie's a great golfer...
Although the start was just about even, Navy, out rowed by Yale the Saturday before, swept to a lead in the first quarter of a mile and held it as the Crimson made its bid near the mile and a quarter mark. The Middies had only a six-foot advantage going into the last quarter mile where the Crimson Varsity went to 40 beats a minute...