Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ouimet's 2-and-l win from von Elm and Jones' 4-stroke margin over Evans (71 to 75) in the medal playoff, featured the third...
Died. Paul J. Rainey, 45, big-game hunter, explorer, cinema photographer, on the S. S. Saxon, going from Southampton to Cape Town, of a stroke of paralysis. The first man to hunt lions with dogs, he once killed 27 lions in 35 days...
Died. Jacob L. Loose, 73, a founder (in 1902) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., at Eastern Point, Mass., after a paralytic stroke...
...crew at close range. It was with this object in view that Coach Sam Shaw of the Freshman crews spent much time with the first year cox candidates. Later in the afternoon Coach Shaw explained to the experienced Freshmen, who reported today for the first time, the new stroke that will be used exclusively this year. Today the experienced yearlings will be on the machines in the last practice before they go out on the water on Monday. The inexperienced Freshmen will continue on the machines for a while under the eyes of Coaches Bert Haines and Bill Haines...
...extending the summons to all men in the upper classes, regardless of experience. This is made possible because the new system, differing in many respects from that inaugurated last year by Coach Muller, will naturally come with difficulty to those veterans who have mastered the intricacies of the old stroke and thus presents a wider opportunity, than ever before for new material to come to the fore...