Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Healey will probably start for the Crimson on the mound, with a possibility of Eddie Ingalls getting the starting call. Coach Fred Mitchell must save one of his hurlers for the Holy Cross encounter Saturday. Because the Holy Cross nine is death on fast pitching, the Varsity mentor may use Ingalls today and Artie Johns on Saturday...
Quick to deny that report, for the present at least, were La Follette advisers and big, bluff Mr. Ward himself. Mr. Ward got his business start in Leavenworth where, serving a term for narcotic law violations, he fell in with President Herbert Huse Bigelow of Minneapolis' rich Brown & Bigelow (advertising specialties), who was serving a term for income tax evasion. When Mr. Ward was released, Mr. Bigelow, who thought him "good clay worthy of molding," gave him a letter to Brown & Bigelow that got him a job shoveling manure on one of the company farms. By the time...
...Israel, who won the official race an hour and a half later. Dipping his paddle 52 times a minute for the first two miles, 50 times a minute for the last two, Israel covered the distance in 45 min., 45 sec. Adam, who was too tired and disgusted to start in the official race, did not even get one of the 69 merchandise prizes that included two pigs and a bull...
...Preakness (for which nominations closed a month ago) and since Stagehand was not in condition to run, Dauber was a 3-to-2 favorite-chiefly because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field of nine), ten lengths in back of the leaders, Menow and Fighting Fox. Gloom...
...WORLD AT MY SHOULDER-Eunice Tietjens-Macmillan ($3). Good-natured, modest autobiography of a poetess who helped Harriet Monroe start Poetry, clearing up some minor points in the history of Chicago's pre-War literary life...