Word: comiskey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Park, Calumet Farm's Ponder, with Jockey Steve Brooks up, sizzled a mile and a quarter in 2:oo|-a new track record. The $66,150 he won made Ponder the turf's leading 'moneywinner of the year ($267,525). ¶ At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Red Sox Left-Hander Mel Parnell hurled his team to a victory over the White Sox, 11-4, became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this year...
...been labeled a "stinkeroo." Shuffling Jersey Joe Walcott, never a dashing crowd-pleaser, was old (35) and tired. His opponent, thin-mustached Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati, was young enough (27), but he was a second-rater without punch or drive. Just before they squared off in Chicago's Comiskey Park last week, a hanger-on wriggled in to where Joe Louis sat in the fourth row and asked breathlessly: "Champ, have you got a last-minute pick?" Deadpan Joe, the front man for boxing's new promotional monopoly, mumbled forthrightly: "Ain't doin' any pickin...
Ezzard Charles won the heavyweight "championship" of the world minus New York and England last night by a unanimous 15-round decision over Joe Walcott in Comiskey Park, Chicago...
...Chicago's frozen Comiskey Park field, the National (pro football) League's championship was played out in sneakers instead of cleated shoes. The Chicago Cardinals ran wild in them. Halfback Elmer Angsman (ex-Notre Dame) ripped off two touchdown runs of 70 yds.; Halfback Charlie Trippi (ex-Georgia) went 44 and 75 yds. The underdog Philadelphia Eagles did some cavorting, too, but not enough. The score: Cardinals 28, Eagles...
Then, after accepting the baseball writers' Comiskey Trophy for the Rookie of the Year, Jackie climbed into the new Cadillac that Dodger fans had given him at Ebbets Field, and headed for Hollywood. He will star in a movie tentatively called Brooklyn, U.S.A. and help Negro Sportwriter Wendell Smith finish Robinson's "autobiography...