Word: turfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eddie Arcaro up: the 73rd running of the Belmont Stakes; defeating Robert Morris by three lengths and Yankee Chance by five; at New York's Belmont Park. Winner of this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, Whirlaway is the fifth horse in the history of U.S. turf to win America's three major races for three-year-olds. Others: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral. > Tennist Fred Perry, onetime British Davis Cupper now teaching tennis in the U.S.: an invitation Professional Round Robin Tennis championship (10% of receipts for British War Relief); defeating creaking...
...jaded clubhouse patrons ($4 admission) and the exclusive Turf & Field Club members (who sit apart in a sort of royal enclosure), the mannequins were a fine aperitif. But they meant nothing to 15,000 racing fans who jampacked Belmont's grandstands. Far more exciting to them were two other innovations sponsored by Belmont's democratic young president: 1) free bus transportation from the Long Island end of New York's Independent subway line; 2) a tryout of the Daily Double (combined betting on the first and second races of the day's card), a workingman...
...last week in Maryland, where it is subsidized with State funds and helped by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This week a similar campaign begins in New Jersey, where the first few spores were sown in 1939. The method is to heavily infect two half-acre plots of turf (where grubs thrive best) in each square mile. Birds, breezes and flying beetles then complete spreading the disease. Purpose of spore-sowing is not, as in spraying, to kill beetles on a specific plot but to establish the beetle enemy widely. Spore powder is not available to ordinary gardeners, because...
With a warm sun beating down on the Soldiers Field turf, Coach Jaako Mikkola yesterday afternoon officially raised the curtain on the 1941 outdoor track season by running off the filed events of the University Handicaps. This afternoon the Handicaps continue with the track events starting at 2:30 o'clock...
...Stahley was made backfield coach under Harrlow for four years, but previous to that the young and popular Penn State graduate held down the Freshman coaching job, and was known and respected from Wigglesworth to Hollis for his ability to drive the Yearlings almost into the Soldiers Field turf and still make them like...