Word: winner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell and Kirkland softballers clash at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon in the most crucial House athletic contest of the year, because the Straus cup and the House championship go to the winner of today's game, so closely placed are the Bellboys and the Deacons in point totals...
...glassy Bayou Barataria last week, 70 of these homemade vessels lined up for the third annual four-mile race to determine the No. 1 piroguer of the U. S. Favorite with the 5,000 spectators who gathered under the ancient, moss draped oaks was 19-year-old Adam Billiot, winner...
...Winner of the $200 was another Billiot named Israel, who won the official race an hour and a half later. Dipping his paddle 52 times a minute for the first two miles, 50 times a minute for the last two, Israel covered the distance in 45 min., 45 sec. Adam, who was too tired and disgusted to start in the official race, did not even get one of the 69 merchandise prizes that included two pigs and a bull...
Whitney-bred, Du Pont-owned Dauber, a grandson of famed Man o' War, was a thoroughly acceptable winner of last week's $69,000 Preakness Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan...
Well-established favorite of the 300 pop-eyed entrants was Budweiser IV, descendant of Budweiser I, a 1932 champion now regarded as the Man o' War among leapfrogs because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world...