Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polo Grounds, Manhattan, long, lean George Mogridge uncoiled his snake-like left arm, sore these several weeks, and with it manipulated a ball so quaintly for seven innings that the Giants could make but two runs while the Senators made five. In the eighth inning, the arm began to tire and one "Firpo" Marberry relieved Mogridge, holding the Giants safely. Score: Washington 7, New York 4. The series was even, two games apiece...
With the score in games 3-1 against him, Briggs started a brilliant rally. By coming in to the net and angling for the corners, he succeeded in taking the next two games, but his efforts seemed to tire him, and he dropped the following two games. With the score 5-3, each player kept his own service, giving Harada...
...light harness racing. Their winnings aggregated nearly two million. He was a seasoned driver in the high-wheeled sulky days of Maude S. and Jay-Eye-See and created a sensation in 1892 by driving Nancy Hanks a mile in 2 :04 hitched to the new ball-bearing, pneumatic tire, featherweight sulky. In 1893, he drove three horses abreast, hitched to a high-wheeled skeleton wagon, a mile in 2:14. He held the world records for a trotted mile, two miles, three miles, other distances, and several pacing records...
...Hertzig, of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Pittsburgh...
...Brennan fight [1923], I kept looking Brennan over and wondering when he would tire of hitting me. His blows were like big stones raining. I said to myself without feeling any pain: 'When will the big stones raining on me stop?' . . . This time Wills will be the one to feel the big stones raining -lluvia de piedras, I say in my own language-shower of stones...