Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better-than-average professionals-topnotchers like Harry Cooper, Horton Smith, Johnny Revolta, Henry Pic-ard-who play in the winter circuit because i) they are on the payroll ($5,000 to $10,000 a year) of U. S. sporting-goods manufacturers to publicize their products, and 2) they usually win from $3,000 to $6,000 in prize money during the tour. But most of all, the average pro knows that in this troupe the lowliest member may suddenly become the leading man at some performance, may win a few hun-dred dollars and get some press notices which will...
...larger group than ever started off this year. For fresh in the minds of many was the fabulous feat of Ralph Guldahl, who, debt-laden and jobless, started out on the grapefruit circuit last winter with borrowed clubs and a wheezing jalopy, won $3,500, went on to win the U. S. Open championship last summer and wound up the year with $8,600 in prize money, a lucrative winter job at the Miami-Biltmore and a potential 1938 income of some $25,000 from endorsing golf equipment, exhibition matches, magazine articles and other pickings & perquisites that fall...
With the Redmen from McGill out of the way until next season, the Varsity Hockey team will endeavour to get back into the win column and boost their standing in the International Intercollegiate League when they face Princeton on the Hobey Banker Memorial Rink Saturday night...
...Harvard has not yet reached its peak, and should they find themselves against the Tigers, they ought to win by a comfortable margin. If they continue to display the brand of hockey that has characterized their play so far this season, they are in for a busy evening, although a defeat would definitely be considered an upset...
...Camera fans, polish up your lenses-and you may win a FREE TRIP TO HOLLYWOOD with ALL EXPENSES PAID WHILE THERE!" Whoever submits the best picture of Cecil B. DcMille, Hollywood producer, taken during his visit here next Tuesday, will be given this GRAND PRIZE by the Boston Sunday Advertiser, a local publication...