Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dope Sheet. In Toronto, Ont., a Telegram racing expert picked Joker's Hill to show in the featured fifth at Old Woodbine track, had some explaining to do when Joker's Hill never ran, turned out to have bowed a tendon, was shot a week before the race...
...Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote without even trying, Stevenson listened in rapt attention. Momentarily dropping his faraway look, he said: "Will you please find [Administrative Secretary] Bill Blair and tell him about that? He keeps track of that sort of thing...
...fancy was tickled by a package of phonograph records, a man's hat and topcoat that reposed in a car parked on Chicago's South Side. The crook grabbed the loot and ran, little knowing that he had been seen by his victim-none other than Track Great Jesse Owens, who burned up the 1936 Olympics. Balding and 30 Ibs. heavier at 46 than in his running days, Illinois Youth Commission Member Owens raced down a flight of stairs, nailed his quarry in roughly 100 yds., failed to clock his own time for the dash...
Some critics claim that the groups tested with the SPT have been too small to be definitive. The Glueck's, however, feel that since all the experiments have pointed in the same direction, it must be concluded that "we are on the track of a useful device...
Another interesting feature of Oxford-Cambridge track was the fact that the alumni of the two schools had formed, not two, but one organization to aid and supervise the teams. This was the Achilles Club, composed of holders of Blues, half-Blues, and Relay Colours in track. Although the Achilles carried on its affairs in an aura of accord, there was no slackening of rivalry between the two universities on the athletic field. The former athletes simply felt that preservation of Oxford and Cambridge track was more important than preserving either Oxford or Cambridge alone. It is an attitude that...