Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bellboys both scored 11 points, Cohen starring in the dashes and Dyer heaving the weights. What Coach Bill Neufeld called "the outstanding performance of the meet" was Jack McClure's 51.6 win in the Quarter for the Deacons, as Dave Gooder brought Lowell a second by a gallant home-stretch fight. Neufeld also declared himself well satisfied with the fact that 108 men participated out of which number 51 placed...
Since Lawrin's owner had not seen fit to nominate him for the Preakness (for which nominations closed a month ago) and since Stagehand was not in condition to run, Dauber was a 3-to-2 favorite-chiefly because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field...
Runner-up was Cravat, a former stablemate of Dauber's in the Whitney string, who had been 20 lengths behind the leaders at the half-mile post, had made an equally astonishing stretch finish. Pace-setting Menow was third, Can't Wait fourth...
Roys A. Ellis, Jr. '40 and a passenger; E. G. Howes of Boston, narrowly escaped death when they were forced to land a Stinson monoplane on a short, narrow cinder stretch adjacent to the naval drydock in Sou8th Boston yesterday...
Stroked by Ralph Cutler, the Puritans rowed the improved stretch in 8:36, as Kirkland trailed by two and a half lengths. Leverett best out Lowell for third place...