Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding the creast of a two game winning streak, Coach Jim McDonald's booters will try to make it three straight tomorrow afternoon when they play host to a powerful Bruin outfit that edged them 1 to 0 in a thriller at Providence last term...
...other city except New York, vigorous, slam-bang Chicago has contributed its newspaper flavor and traditions to U.S. journalism. In the Chicago tradition are bloody circulation wars, roughshod crime reporters, brawling editorial pages, fierce competition in getting and selling the news. Last week a man with a winning streak stepped into what he called this "hardball league." From the estate of the late Frank Knox he bought (for $2,151,537.88 cash) control of the Daily News...
Extending its streak to four in a row, the Bellboys trounced the B team 6-1, yesterday, thereby toppling the losers from the league lead and gaining a first place tie with Company C. Wally Robb set B down with two hits...
...picture as we go into the last week of the regular season. Tommy Donovan's high-flying Beavers last week took the biggest dive since the Washington Redskins of 1940, as the Browns roared by them into first place on the crest of a five game winning streak. After beating the Dodgers 6 to 3 Wednesday, the Beavers fell apart at the seams Thursday when the Browns clubbed them 19-2, and then on Friday they were the victims of Keith Miller's three-hit pitching as the Tigers, finding a sudden power at the plate...
Three unearned markers in the sixth inning gave Portsmouth a 6 to 5 win over Harvard three Saturdays ago at the winner's field. It was the Crimson's second loss of the summer season. The losing streak which Portsmouth started was brought to three by Holy Cross as the Crusaders received seven unearned runs to nullify by a 7 to 6 score a neat pitching job by ace Jack Wallace...