Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long-armed Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine triumphed for the second straight year in the annual potato-picking contest between the Governor of Maine and the Governor of Idaho, 382½ to 365 pounds. Said Champion Barrows: "I did it by just sticking my nose in the row." Said worsted Governor Clarence A. Bottolfsen: "That's hard work...
...American Ballad Contest of barbershop quartets and Gibson Girl trios in Manhattan's Central Park, rasp-voiced
...contest lasted for more than an hour, and during that time guard Ernie Sargeant and end Gene Lovett led a spirited regular defense which hurled back every B team offensive effort. The C and D teams then ended the day's activities by engaging in a short scrimmage session. There were no casualties Saturday, but Joel Ferris, Dick Pfister, and Loren MacKinney are still shelved with minor groin injuries...
Even the title, "Bachelor Mother," sounds good,--almost too good for the Hays Office. But it's really a false alarm. Ginger Rogers insists she found the baby and that makes it all right. The ensuing complications, involving a department store, a jitterbug contest, and David Niven, all add up to delightful fare, even for the most heavily armor-plated movie-goer. David Niven has climbed another rung towards a well-deserved stardom. Miss Rogers does a fine job, even though the shadows of Fred Astaire and such triumphs as "Top Hat" and "The Castles" still lurk wistfully...
...that promised to be as dramatic as the one 25 years ago. In the stands at the Merion Cricket Club at Haverford, Pa., grave-faced tennis fans gathered for the opening matches of the threeday, best-of-five series, wondered if this was to be the last Davis Cup contest they would ever see. German troops were already slogging through Poland, another World War was only a few hours away...