Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pencil-thin (6 ft., 140 Ibs.) Charlie Coe, 34, the whole week had been painfully tiring. Trudging over the tough, 6,680-yd. Lake Course at San Francisco's Olympic Club, the Oklahoma oil broker rested on a shooting stick between each stroke, burying his face in his hands and moodily wondering how to get his drives out of the rough and his putts into the hole. Still, the 1949 Amateur champ and veteran Walker Cupper somehow got through each round, finally defeated Ohio Blanket Salesman Roger McManus 3 and 2 on the 34th hole to make...
...first race pitted Coach Joe Brown's eight against Twickenham Rowing Club. The Twickenham men were heavy and well-trained; in fact, the Harvard contigent was outweighed in every race by 20 pounds a man and more. A solid stroke brought the local eight to victory by three and three-quarter lengths, referred to in polished circles as an "easy victory." Despite the lack of competition, Harvard won over the mile and five-sixteenths course--the "Henley distance"--in 7 minutes, 10 seconds, fastest time...
Harvard got off to a good start at a rapid 40 strokes a minute rate. By the Remenham Barrier, the one-third marker, the lightweights had grabbed a quarter-length advantage, and stroke Mark Hoffman was understroking Thames. At Fawley, the eight increased their lead to half a length, and continued to understroke the heavier, older British crew...
...season, his first full year in the majors, when he put aside his 35-oz. bat for one weighing 31 oz. Banks found that he could watch the pitch's path until the last split second, then pick it off with a quick bat stroke...
Died. J. P. McEvoy, 63, writer, world-roving editor for Reader's Digest; of a stroke; in New City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach...