Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killed in Action. Lieut. Commander Manning Marius Kimmel, 31, Annapolis-trained oldest son of Pearl Harbor's Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel (awaiting court-martial), winner of the Silver Star for "sinking of a significant amount of Japanese shipping"; aboard his command, the Robalo, 28th U.S. submarine lost during...
...batting, boasted the three top individual averages. One of the three, however, was brilliant Second Baseman Bobby Doerr, who played his last game on Labor Day before reporting for Army induction. A month before, Red Sox pitching had suffered a body blow when the Navy claimed 18-game winner Tex Hughson. Although $65,000 had been promptly peeled off Owner Tom Yawkey's bulging bank roll for two Pacific Coast League pitchers, Rex Cecil and Clem Dreisewerd (who beat the Yankees in his debut), the experts still figured that lack of pitching would keep Boston among the also-rans...
...start, most experts picked Ecuador's flashy Francisco ("Pancho") Segura as the ultimate winner. Pigeon-toed Pancho of the two-handed drive delighted the crowd with audible pep talks to himself in Spanish, with dramatic gestures of disgust when he flubbed a point. But Pancho got a head cold, and in the semifinals a headache; there he came up against Indianapolis' lanky, steady Bill Talbert, 4-F (for diabetes). A sound stylist with good ground strokes and a solid net game, Talbert drove Pancho to distraction and defeat in five long sets...
Thus the U.S., in 1944, had its two most colorless tennis champions in two decades. For the winner of the women's title was California's strawberry blonde, Pauline Betz, whose strokes are less brilliant than those of any first-ten competitor, but who rarely makes a mistake. She is also good-looking...
...result of a 3-all tie between Companies B and C last Monday, the winner of the intramural league's three-cornered race will have to be determined by a play-off between these two clubs today. The winner will meet Lowell next week...