Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olympia Fields, Chicago. On the second day of the tournament, detectives discovered that Chicago's Public Enemy No. 4, "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, was playing in it under his real name of Vincent Gebardi. They arrested him for vagrancy at the eighth tee, where his score was one under par, accompanied him for the remaining holes. Disturbed, Golfer McGurn took an 11 at the 8th, had a card of 86, withdrew...
...score of U. S. citizens led by Newton D. Baker, and including Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, Geologist Charles Kenneth Leith, Col. Hugh (Dnieprostroy Dam) Cooper, Frank Cooke Atherton, Hawaiian tycoon...
...Mayor Kelly's picture left readers in small doubt as to who was meant. All the Mayor would say when questioned was: "Any answer I might make would put me on the spot. I have paid my income tax every year and have nothing to fear on that score." But when the Herex finally broadcast the fact that Ed Kelly had failed to report income of $450,000 in 1926-28 and had settled with the U.S. Treasury in May 1932 for $70,000 in taxes and $35,000 in penalties, it was bigger news for Chicago than...
...horses to cross the starting line in two more or less regular rows. Starter Steve Phillips could not see from his low starting stand that one of the horses had broken into a gallop when he sent last week's twelve away on the first score. Going to the first turn of the triangular track, Fred Egan edged Brown Berry out of the ruck. He watched Mary Reynolds slip into the lead, watched horse after horse try to catch her, break irritably into a gallop and be taken to the outside to calm down. Last...
...crowd did not know what to expect in the third heat, with both Mary and Brown Berry still quivering from the terrific second. All eleven horses (one had been withdrawn) were subdued, got away evenly at the first score. For a half-mile they ran in the order they had finished in the second. Then Mary fell back to third where she stayed until the last turn...