Word: ties
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-way tie for the lead in the House golf league between the Bellboys, Gold Coasters, and Puritans resulted from Lowell's defeat of Adams on the greensward yesterday, and if the three captains agree to a match involving six threesomes, the deadlock will be played off today. A similar method was used two years ago, but if it is not agreed to, the title will be decided by elimination matches...
Dean of Manhattan's bookmakers, "Long Tom" Shaw, 6 ft. 3, grey-haired, with a diamond stickpin in his tie, a grey felt hat over his shrewd Irish face, has been taking bets at New York tracks since 1906. At Belmont Park and other New York tracks his stool is No. i in the. line of bookmakers in the betting shed. The odds chalked on his slate are highly respected by his confreres. A onetime New Orleans bicycle-racing champion, Tom Shaw, now 60, rides in an open Rolls Royce...
...other a white. From a tower the judge watched sharply to see which dog took the lead at the start, which turned the rabbit at a right angle, which made the kill. He raised a red or white flag to name the winner, doffed his hat to indicate a tie & runoff...
Last week a tie for first in the Sapling went to Gangster's son, Tiz A Gangster, also owned by John Pesek. Ed McGinnis of Miami paid a reputed $1,000 for Rhu, got $600 back next day when Rhu won the Futurity. In the Derby, Gangster easily took the lead from his co-finalist, Sunny Sahara, reached the rabbit four lengths ahead. He missed on the dive and Sahara made the kill, but judges gave the cup to Gangster. Third place in the Derby went to another of Gangster's progeny. Shadow Son of Gangster. Proud John...
...meet. University of Michigan's famed Negro Willis Ward, star footballer and his college's most versatile track athlete, won the 110-metre high hurdles, pulled a muscle in his heat of the 100-metre dash, which forced him to withdraw from that event and merely tie for third place in the high jump. Jack Torrance, gigantic (311-lb.) alumnus of Huey Long's university (L. S. U.), shot-putter by day and Baton Rouge policeman by night, posed for the Press and languidly tossed a 12-lb. shot 62 ft. ½ in. to break the world...