Word: runner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornell Sophomore was master of the situation at all times as he throttled the powerful Harvard attack completely, yielding but four base hits and never allowing a runner to reach third. In fact, only twice did the Stahlmen get men as far as second base, and on both occasions two men had already been retired...
Floyd Stahl's Harvard nine, returning to the form that made it the most dangerous team in E. I. L. baseball, regained first place Saturday by tumbling the defending Indians down into third place and enabled an improved Cornell to jump into the runner-up spot by virtue of its victory against Yale last Friday...
Dartmouth's Varsity baseball team came through with three booming hits off Tom Bealey in the pinches at Hanover Saturday afternoon, while the Crimson left runner after runner stranded on the sacks thus shoving Floyd Stahl's nine into second place in the E. I. L. on the short end of a 5 to 3 count...
...finish line, a roar of applause greeted him. His time: 2 hr., 28 min., 51 4/5 sec.-more than 27 seconds faster than the alltime record set by Japan's Kitei Son in the 1936 Olympics. Crowned with the traditional laurel wreath and hailed as a super-runner, Marathoner Brown, a stone mason by trade, smiled feebly. Said he: "I would like to have a steady job instead...
...prized team-of-four trophy in their sport, the Vanderbilt Cup, favorites to win were the famed Four Aces and a team led by Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the cup donor. The Four Aces had won this annual event four times; Vanderbilt's team had won once, been runner-up to the Aces twice. Ace Oswald Jacoby was so confident that in the first round he bet $100 to $10 against his opponents, a team that had barely qualified, was soundly beaten for his overconfidence. So Yachtsman Vanderbilt seemed to have clear sailing...