Word: st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME hastens to return Mr. Ward, Brown & Bigelow to St. Paul, where they belong, apologizes to all concerned...
...MCTEER JR. St. Louis...
Born Henry Jackson, he was known as a "sissy" among his St. Louis schoolmates because of his skinny legs and dainty hands -and the fact that he thought football too rough. He wanted to be a surgeon. One of the older boys in the neighborhood -one Harry Armstrong-taught him to box to protect himself against bullies. After graduating from high school, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles with his coach to try to earn some money to go to college. They soon found themselves in the Los Angeles bread lines. There a local fight promoter named Tom Cox picked them...
...weeks sporting England has been worried over the drought that frizzled the British Isles this spring. It threatened to spoil the ancient St. Andrews golf course for Britain's No. 1 international sporting event of the year (see below). More distressing, it threatened to parch the turf at ancient Epsom Downs for the nation's No. 1 fiesta, the Derby. With loving care the grass of the irregular horseshoe course was watered every day for ten dry weeks. Then, on the eve of the race, a torrent fell...
...first time since competition was inaugurated in 1922, a British team defeated a U. S. team (7-10-4) in the Walker Cup golf matches, played at famed St. Andrews last week. In so doing, they dominated a contest which was notable from start to finish for its incorrigible screwiness...