Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selection is made annualy to a major H winner by H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 and Dean Bender. Although a needy athlete will receive money from the award, Dean Bender explained yesterday that its purpose was to honor, not to subsidize...
...eminent business manager of the Royals, arranged a pre-game foot-race between Jethroe and Ed Conwell, former indoor sprint champion of the United States. In a 75-yard sprint, Jethroe beat Conwell by a comfortable five-yard margin. In a little publicized re-match, however, Conwell emerged a winner...
...which leaves Barney Shotten a double winner: He returned his team to first place, and at the same time arranged matters so that Joe Hatten, Rex Barney, Ralph Branca, Preacher Roe, and Big Newcombe--his top pitchers--will be available for weekend service in the City of Brotherly Love...
...Ardmore, Pa., for the first time in the history of the national women's amateur golf championship, a 15-year-old girl stroked her way into the semifinals. Comely Marlene Bauer of Los Angeles, winner of the National Girl's Championship last month (TIME, Aug. 29), had oldtimers recalling the cool poise of the youthful Bobby Jones (who played in his first Nationals at 14). But after getting to the semifinal round, Marlene's firm grip slipped; on the second hole, she took seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach...
Died. August Krogh, 74, Danish-born scientist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology (he discovered the regulation of the motor mechanism of capillaries, took motion pictures of blood cells flowing through the capillaries of living tissue); of cancer; in Copenhagen...