Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ernie Schaaf, a pale, bulky young Bostonian, was one of Jack Sharkey's sparring partners until Sharkey, thinking Schaaf showed sufficient promise to be groomed for the heavyweight championship, became his manager and got him a fight with Max Baer, which Schaaf won. Schaaf, who has won 20 of his last 30 fights, last week went to Chicago to fight William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, who was beaten last July in Max Schmeling's sole effort to defend the heavyweight championship...
...broadcast games at Soldiers Field. Announcer Husing's account of the Harvard-Army game had sounded crabbed to Harvardmen. Coach Casey had refused to show Husing diagrams of Harvard plays or let him watch practice. The Harvard-Yale game will be broadcast by Ralph ("Gil") Gilroy, a South Bostonian whom Harvardmen well remember as a hard- boiled Princeton halfback...
...play tennis. Seven years later, when the game was being played at 33 U. S. clubs, her brother, Eugenius H. Outerbridge, helped form the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association which drafted rules and held the first national tournament at Newport, R. I. The winner was a spry young Bostonian with a fierce eye and an underhand serve, Richard Dudley Sears. He too could lay claim to being one of the very first U. S. lawn tennis players. In 1874 his brother had brought a set and a rule book from England, set up the net on an hourglass shaped court...
...figure that is not treated in Euclid, or in those modern works that are based on Euclid. When certain theorems concerning this figure are demonstrated, the problem of the trisection of the angle is quite simple." But what the figure is and what the theorems, President Callahan, like the Bostonian trisectors, would not disclose last week. He too wanted copyright first. He was at Chippewa Falls, Wis. for the 75th anniversary celebration of Notre Dame Church, where once he preached. A friendly man, medium tall, 53, a horse back rider when he has time & opportunity, he was amused...
...grandmother was a star witness for the defense, Constance May's mother was a planetary witness. In a stage-Bostonian accent she told of how she went to the theatre every night with her mother, met Mr. Cannon. In a defiant voice she recounted visits to his rooms; of never telling him she had borne him a child...