Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been the abrupt decline of the Giants, who did exactly the same thing last year. Betting Commissioner Jack Doyle supplied a shrewd diagnosis: the Giants with brilliant pitchers, good fielding but no remarkable batting power, rarely win or lose by a large margin and four months of close games wear them out before the season is over. The Cubs, almost ignored in pre-season pennant predictions, were last week still scorned by the Cardinals and the Giants. Meanwhile a Cub pitcher named Bill Lee took first place in the League pitching averages with 15 victories, 5 defeats...
Women swimmers at Toronto were enraged last week, first by a C.N.E. ruling that they had to wear suits, then by bad weather which postponed their race for four days...
...Lanky, towheaded Sidney Wood got a scare from Gilbert Hall who was leading 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 4-2. Then Wood ran out four games for the match. Refused permission to wear spikes, Czech Roderick Menzel played shoeless. Champion Fred Perry, too indifferent to win love sets, frisked through a match with one Arthur S. Fowler of Pleasantville, N. Y., 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. William Tatem Tilden II, present as a spectator, announced that Perry's strokes were bad, predicted that Donald Budge would play him in the final, snubbed an autograph hunter...
...boys played together in the bands but, says Daniel Jenkins, "They got too fresh and I had to separate them." Now the girls play in their own bands or sing to the boys' accompaniment. Each band-section is chaperoned and guided by a ministerial graduate of the Orphanage. Boys wear dark blue uniforms, girls simple print dresses...
...only one of many who drove for more than 50 years. Trotting drivers ordinarily start as stable boys, work slowly upward through the stages of being grooms, second-trainers, and finally trainer-drivers with public stables of their own. Most good drivers train the horses which they drive. They wear not the owner's colors but their own. A trainer usually gets $100 per month for each horse in his stable, clear of all operating expenses; gets no additional salary for driving. Sunburned, grizzled, dressed in narrow whipcord trousers, low boots, high caps and light silk jackets, drivers like...