Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three Kentucky Derby favorites-First Landing, Atoll and Intentionally-broke fast and stayed in front for most of the running of the $88,100 Wood Memorial at New York's Jamaica race track. But the pace was too fast, and a 64-to-1 long shot named Manassa Mauler charged through on the inside, won by three-quarters of a length to take $55,915 first money...
...number four, five, and six men also disposed of their opponents with little difficulty as Bill Wood beat Bill Moore 6-3, 6-1; Jim Cameron took Mike Willsey 6-4, 8-6; and Laurie Pratt defeated Rick Fluegel...
...doubles competition the Crimson netmen fared equally well, sweeping the three official and two unofficial matches. Weld and Bowditch, playing as the first team, defeated Houghton and Moore 7-5, 6-2, while the second team of Wood and Gallwey crushed Temple and Osburn...
Fred Vinton and Jorge Lemann, the fourth and fifth singles men, will not be making the trip for the varsity. Thus, Bill Wood will move up to fourth position, with Jim Cameron and Laurie Pratt playing fifth and sixth. Captain Ned Weld, Bob Bowditch, and Tim Gallwey remain in the first three slots...
Weld and Bowditch continue as the number one doubles team, and Wood and Gallwey, a new pair set up because Lemann and Vinton will miss the trip, will play second. The third doubles team is indefinite, with Pratt and Cameron, Langden Smith and Scott Custer, and Dick Chute and Denny Briggs as possibilities...