Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chuck Hoelzer and Larry Ward teamed up in the 200-yd breaststroke to not the Crimson eight points. Jerry Gorman and Bob Berke pulled the same maneuver in the 220-yd freestyle and Tom Woods worked it again in the 150-yd backstroke with Berke's assistance. Ted Norris's first in the 440-yd freestyle, coupled with Joe Fox's win in the 50-yd freestyle swung the meet for Harvard...
...Ward-level thinking came naturally to Bill Boyle. Like Harry Truman, he was a product of Kansas City's old Pendergast machine. At 16, he was ringing doorbells in the old Fourth (Silk Stocking) Ward in Kansas City, later became leader there, entered the law. He was a police-department secretary in 1939 when his boss followed old Tom Pendergast to jail. Boyle took over the police department for a few months, won the praise even of the opposition for his administration...
When Louis was five his mother took him away from Jane Alley, moved some 18 blocks to Liberty Street, near Perdido in the old third ward. Socially it was the shortest of steps, but it was up, and for Louis it was decisive: near by were the Fisk School, where he learned to read & write, and honky-tonks like Sicilian Henry Matranga's place and thickly packed Funky Butt Hall, where both the syncopation and the dancing were strident and brassy...
Nobody came close to Chuck Hooizer in the 200 yard breaststroke, but it took a thrilling last minute sprint for Larry Ward to give Harvard its only sweep of the evening and reduce the Crimson deficit to a single point. In the next race Ted Norris tied the meet up at 34 to 34 by finishing exactly 30 yards ahead of the field in the 440 yard freestyle...
Woods and John Steinhart will start in the 150-yard backstroke event, with Army captain Ed Townsley as one of the foes. Chuck Hoelzer and Ward will compete in the 200-yard breaststroke...