Word: turf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen minutes from San Francisco, between the Bay and the Berkeley foothills, a new $2,000,000 race track called the Golden Gate Turf Club has been opened by a group of California turfmen, headed by President Harry Brown of the Interocean Steamship Corp. Three years ago such a venture would have been considered quicksand suicide: there were scarcely enough high-grade thoroughbreds in the U. S. to keep two big California tracks going during the winter. But Californians have recently gone in for breeding...
Discovered digging with oldtime frenzy into his new job (as general manager of Oakland's swagger new Golden Gate Turf Club, readying its track for next month's opening) was trigger-tongued Edward ("Slip") Madigan. During his rip-roaring tenure as St. Mary's football coach (1921-39) he made himself as controversial a Bay Area figure as Harry Bridges, his Galloping Gaels famed as the nation's toughest, gaudiest, barnstormingest small-college team...
...first of the annual Harvard-Yale football clashes this fall, the Freshman teams of the two colleges will meet this afternoon in New Haven, in the Bowl if the turf permits, otherwise on the Freshman playing field...
...sling a mean aerial, has been inserted into the starting lineup in place of Charley "The Baron" Spreyer at tailback and Covina, California's Jack Morgan, another newcomer to the Varsity, has taken over the left end slot from Joe Kouman. According to reports from the Charles River practice turf, Morgan is to be highly feared and respected when aerials loop into his territory...
When Army met Harvard on the turf of Soldiers Field last Saturday, it was mediocre versus mediocre with few lessons learned by either team. But when Army met Harvard in the opposing cheering sections, it was superb versus soporific, and the lessons are legion for Harvard. If the quality of the teams had been in proportion to the quality of their respective cheering support, "Jawn" would have suffered a gridiron catastrophe rivaling Old Eli's debacle of the previous week. If the yelling Cadets had been absent, Soldiers Field wouldn't have been as noisy as a thoroughly average Student...