Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dive--Won by Buttle (P); second. Weir (H); third, Jacobs (P). Winner's points...
...gaining its seventh win in its last eight games, the Crimson probably could have compiled a much higher score against the mediocre Williams sextet had it played a little harder. But its passing and defense were unsteady all right and Williams could easily have come out the winner. The Elphmen led. 2 to 0, at the end of the first period. Because the weather was too warm for Williams' outdoor rink the game was played at the small Springfield Arena...
...Jazz. At night, the hot, insistent rhythm came at him from every direction. In the daytime, there was jazz in the streets. Band members would pile into advertising wagons (with the trombonist on the tail gate for freedom of reach) and engage in music battles with other bands; the winner was chosen by acclamation and rode off with crowds following. At Negro funerals, the bands played to & from the cemetery-doleful spirituals on the way out, such frenzied affirmations as High Society and Oh, Didn't He Ramble! on the way back...
After his ankle went bad a year ago, Calumet Farm's Armed was turned out to graze on Kentucky bluegrass. Armed is a gelding and no use at stud, but as 1947's horse-of-the-year, and winner of $773,700 (now third highest in racing history), the then seven-year-old had earned the right to grow old in comfort. Instead, Armed perked up with the rest cure; his ankle bothered him hardly at all. Last week, to a sentimental flurry of applause from the crowd, the old champ jogged to the post at Hialeah Park...
...former star weight chucker, came through to win the National AAU 35 pound weight throwing event, as predicted, in New York Saturday night. He narrowly beat out two collegians and two Olympians with a throw of 57 feet, 11 3/4 inches. Bob Bennett of Rhode Island, last year's winner and number one weight thrower in the Olympics, failed to place...