Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Templeton Smith easily outdistancing his 155 pound runner up in the Winner's Race with a time of 3:14.9 for the half mile, the first post-war sculling regatta came to a successful end under pleasant akies last Monday...
Although Thomas Day offered no competition to the awifter Smith, the fight for the second slot turned the Winner's Race into a real thriller. The race got underway with all oarsmen off to a fast start, but Smith's steady powerful stroke soon forged his craft well ahead of the other three singles...
...exhibits, none attracted more attention than the entries in the political section. Illinois farmers, sweltering through hot, humid days, got a look at assorted bosses and water carriers, each a ribbon winner in his class...
Died. Edward Riley Bradley, 86, onetime bookmaker and longtime "honest gambler," who became a multimillionaire as proprietor of Palm Beach's Casino, famed & respected owner of some of America's most famous race horses (Blue Larkspur, Bimelech, Bubbling Over), only four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby; in Lexington...
...were tightly grouped, but Tom Day of Winthrop poured on all his power in the waning seconds and shaded his fellow Puritan Bill Dowd by less than a quarter of a length, and Frank Tyng followed close behind with less than a full boat length separating him from the winner...