Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marquis of Queensberry in his rulebook. Last week Jackie Fields,* sleek Chicago Hebrew, and Young Jack Thompson, flashy San Francisco Negro, were pummeling each other about a ring there for what the promoters insisted was "the world's welterweight championship." They had reached the eighth round when two men, not pugilists, started a fight of their own in the balcony. One drew a revolver. Nearby spectators scrambled away. In a moment there was general pandemonium. One whisper said: "Race riot." Another said animals quartered nearby for a circus had escaped. Another, seeing smoke from a photographer's flashlight...
...small, wiry, grey-haired millionaire drove a leaping spray-plumed power boat up and down Indian Creek in Florida a little more than a week ago at the average speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend...
...Glenna Collett, of the Westchester Biltmore Club, women's national golf champion, is ranked first among the 1,237 feminine players of the metropolitan district in a list made public last week by the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association. Miss Collett is given a rating of plus two. Miss Maureen Orcutt, of White Beeches, is ranked second at plus one. In third place are three players, Miss Marion Hollins, Westbrook, Miss Martha M. Parker, Westchester Hills, and Mrs. Courtland Smith, Glen Ridge, at scratch...
...battered old Stanley Cup, emblematic of the hockey championship, passed to the Boston Bruins last week when they defeated the New York Rangers in the final play-off series, in two straight games. The Bruins had won the American section league championship and defeated Les Canadiens, Canadian section champions. The Rangers in two play-off series defeated the New York Americans and the Toronto Maple Leafs, then lost to the Bruins...
...thin men and fat women, tattooed men and bearded women, ordinary men and ordinary women. The train has come from Sarasota, Fla., where all winter the Circus has hibernated like the strange animal it is. It has arrived in The Bronx, northernmost borough of New York. A day or two later it is quartered in a huge new coliseum. The crowd has gathered. The boys are selling pink drink. There is a hush. Alfred Emanuel Smith mounts a chair, blows a gold whistle. All the men and women who have piled off the train in the dusk parade...