Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using the same yardstick, Rusty Callow's boys from the Schuylkill should hand the Middies a tidy defeat. The Red and Blue walloped Yale two weeks back, yet the Elis recovered to beat the Middies by almost three lengths the following Saturday...
When the wind blows, tournament golfers say, the men are separated from the boys. By that yardstick, Samuel Jackson Snead was a man. His booming drives and classic swing always drew a large and enthusiastic gallery. Where Sam usually died was on the greens. But in the Masters Tournament at Augusta last week, even Sam Snead was blown askew by winds. He took a one-over-par 73 the first day, a 75 the second...
...Citation rate with wonder horses of the past? This week Handicapper Plaut pored over his form charts for 1920-Man o' War's big year-and came up with a 1920 Yardstick. Said he, reverently: "There never was a year like it." Plaut put a staggering 144 lbs. on the late, great "Big Red" (then came John P. Grier, 126; On Watch, 123; Upset, 122; Wildair...
Last week, the first edition of the Yardstick (for 1948's three-year-olds) was made public. It surprised nobody that Calumet Farm's Citation was honored with top-weight of 137 lbs. Next in line: Coaltown, 126, and My Request, 124. The man hired by the Thoroughbred Club to "put the figures on them" was owlish little Lincoln Plaut, 50, veteran field director of the Daily Racing Form. Having pegged Citation at 137, he had laid a basis for comparing him with champions of the future...
...theory that one pound equals one length at a mile-and-a-quarter, Man o' War came out on the Yardstick seven lengths better than 1948's wonder horse, Citation...