Word: tabor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when silver was discovered in Leadville, the barren ravines leading to California Gulch swarmed with feverish thousands. In the gambling halls and Sallie Purple's fancy parlors, the bonanza kings strutted and roistered. "Haw" Tabor brought in the rich Little Pittsburgh, then the $10 million Matchless. Silver was everywhere a man might throw his pick, and the picks were thrown everywhere. The picks were sold by Charles Boettcher who, in the end, found a slower but surer bonanza...
...Leadville, the silver boom slowed and then collapsed. "Haw" Tabor died destitute in a Denver hotel he had built. But Colorado and Boettcher prospered. Boettcher branched out into mines, land, railroads, cattle, banks. He gave generously of his millions, pinched pennies for himself. His son Claude† took over management of his enterprises, built a new fortune upon...
...much news as man-bites-dog. George Hanford's '51 stickmen did it Saturday to the tune of 8 to 3. Meanwhile, on the Cape, Paul Birdsall scored four times, and that was enough for the Jayvees to zoom to a 4 to 3 win over Tabor...
Fran Duggan took scoring honors with 17 points for the losers, while Frank Lionette's 11 markers paced the Crimson, which held a 24-20 halftime bulge. The freshman five, meanwhile, turned back Tabor Academy, 51-42, on the losers' court. The Jayvee summary: HARVARD (46) FG F T Mobraaten, rf 4 1 9 Rosinus 1 0 2 Altrocchi, lf 1 1 3 Goldsmith 1 0 2 Holt 1 0 2 Lionette, c 5 1 11 Guthrie 0 1 1 Covey (C), rg 2 0 4 Brynteson, lg 4 1 9 Tomsovic 0 0 0 Cohodes 0 0 0 McGiffert...
Both the freshman and jayvee quintets move back into action tonight following the exam-period lapse when they meet easy opponents before getting into the meatier parts of their spring term schedules. The Yardlings take on Tabor Academy at Morion while the Jayvees entertain Newman Prep on the Blockhouse floor...