Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practically uncontested first in his heat in the 600 in 1:17.8. Satisfied that Lerner had overcome a tendency toward "meet-nervousness" to which he had been prone and anxious to keep him from over-strain, Jaakko scratched Lerner from the semi-finals. Although MacKechnie placed fifth in an eight man host in the same run, the finish was close enough to put him within an ace of pay time. A little more training will turn the trick for the "lab-be-labored" pacers...
Bill Webber picked up eight points for the Crimson cause, and Ed Buckley added six more. Buckley, guarding Broberg, drew three personal fouls in the opening minutes of the game, and the stocky Sophomore's activities were necessarily limited thereafter. He managed to last until near the end and was a valuable man oven at three-quarter efficiency. San White also had a crack at Broberg and the other Green shooting stars, turning in one of his best games until he drew his fourth foul. The game was full of whistle blowing--the officials called everything they saw and most...
Captain Gay Dillingham, playing Number One, led the team with ten goals while Jack Lewis at Number Two was right behind him with eight. Win White, the third starter, scored two more while the remaining two were chalked up to the ponies, as they were made on shots which bounced from the horses into the goal. War-wick Stabler was the alternate...
STOCKHOLM--Eight bombers flew over the Swedish soaport town of Lulea today and dropped in the vicinity nine bombs, splinters of one of which were said to have determined it was of Russian origin...
Police said that one of the bombs struck the island of Kalla, lying to the south of the town, and eight others struck the ice of the Gulf of Bothnia. No one was injured...