Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They set fire to half a dozen betting booths and piles of hay, tore down fences and Grand-Prix decorations. The horses lined up for the next race but when the crowd did not budge, it was the chargers of the decorative Republican Guards that came pounding down the stretch. It took two hours and 1,000 police reserves from Paris to clear the track...
...moundsmen, Captain George Parker, to uphold the pitching end for Yale According to the original schedule, Coach Fred Mitchell of the Crimson was figuring to reserve his best twirler, Captain Eddie, Loughlin, for the second game. But right now the chances are that Mitch will stretch everything to win this battle before the Old Grads...
...this latter case the fans will watch the unusual sight of a duel between two Grade. A pitcher-captains. Both Parker and Loughlin have seen carrying about 75 per cent of the pitching burden on their respective outfits this season and both are quite a stretch ahead of the No. 2 men, their understudies. Bernard Rankin, a Sophomore will probably be Parker's alternate...
Yale has made a better showing than Harvard in the short races of the year but Coach Ed Leader has found it necessary to do much experimenting since he has begun the final stretch at Gales Ferry. The Harvard eights have been kept intact and seem to be improving daily under the direction of Coach Charlie Whiteside. The Yale coaches have deemed it wise to give out reports of times and the condition of their squad which the Crimson scouts have called incorrect so that has added to the difficulty of securing a based for comparison. However, the heavy odds...
...Medieval Knight got the lead, held it for a mile. The Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday on his estate at Old Windsor, watched his horse and smiled. At the head of the stretch, the crowd saw three horses- Windsor Lad, Lord Woolavington's Easton and Colombo-pound out in front of the field. In the stretch Colombo was running splendidly and catching up on the other two. At the finish-in 2:34 to equal last year's track record-Windsor...