Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women swimmers at Toronto were enraged last week, first by a C.N.E. ruling that they had to wear suits, then by bad weather which postponed their race for four days...
...years, finally surprised himself by winning the world's heavyweight championship in 1933, only to lose it within a year under circumstances so distressing that the Italian Government now refuses him permission to leave home. That the annual long-distance swimming race at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto could be construed as an equivalent of the title which Carnera lost is exactly the sort of notion which an Italian would be likely to foster. Consequently when Swimmer Gianni Gambi was prematurely dragged out of Lake Ontario a year ago, half-frozen, exhausted and spluttering about the disgrace...
Last week, Swimmer Gambi managed to contribute not one surprise but two to the Toronto race. This time, partly because the water was about 20° warmer than usual (74°) and partly because the race had been shortened from 15 mi. to five, Swimmer Gambi not only finished but won, against 90 high-grade professionals, in the excellent time of 2 hr., 8 min., 55 sec. Hauled onto a float and wrapped in a towel, he shouted into a microphone: "I am happy to have won for Italy and Il Duce!" A crowd of 10,000 immediately stopped cheering...
...stalemate. Last week this thought kept holders of Alberta bonds from dumping them overboard. All Canada's great banks and nationally spread industries held emergency directors' meetings. Rich Albertans, as soon as election returns were known, began rapidly transferring their funds from the province to Montreal and Toronto...
...foaled at Chester, near Goshen, in 1849. In 1873. a group of Eastern sportsmen organized the Grand Circuit, which became to trotting what the major leagues are to baseball. The Grand Circuit, a series of meetings on mile tracks, last year included eight cities, this year nine (Toledo, Cleveland, Toronto, Salem, N. H., Goshen, Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, Indianapolis, Lexington, Ky.). There are 200 minor circuits in the U. S., thousands of trotting races on half-mile courses at county fairs. There are about 700 owners and breeders of trotters and four times as many trainers, second trainers, grooms and stable...