Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edmunds will center the midfield. On one side will be Wally Fenn, one of the two Juniors on the team, with a scoring record of three goals. His wing mate is Bill Rand, the only Sophomore starter...
Still, the horseshoe of roses may well go to a longshot-such as Blue Pair, Little Beans or Market Wise, who was an unlikely starter until he beat King Cole, the East's leading candidate, in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica last week. Market Wise's owner, a Long Island businessman named Louis Tufano, took part of the $16.000 he won, hired a private car, shipped his Cinderella horse to Churchill Downs...
...starter toward "winning the war and winning the peace" the Committee suggested a sweeping but somewhat vague program: 1) organizing all opposition to the Nazis and Fascists; 2) open declaration of Britain's war and peace aims; 3) giving a concrete demonstration of what Britain is fighting for by starting to rebuild her social system at once...
...first official recognition when the President sent his Lend-Lease appropriation request to Congress: of the $7,000,000,000 first installment, some $500,000,000 is for foodstuffs. This is about twice the U. S.'s 1940 food exports. But for British stomachs, it is just a starter...
Pitching, a weak point last year, ought to improve with the return of Charlie Brackett and Johnny Schwede, both definitely better than last year. Burgy Ayres, a late starter because of hockey, undoubtedly will also see action, for he is touted as the leading pitcher this season. Catching for these hurlers will be Bob Regan who gets the nod over Bill Parsons...