Word: turfed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...field of seven paraded to the post for last week's running of the $100,000 International Gold Cup, first truly international race of the air age on U.S. turf, Assault was a 1-to-2 favorite. As usual he got away slowly, and so did Stymie, who was third in the betting (at 5-to-1). A 25-to-1 shot named Natchez went to the front, with the two Latins on his heels...
Shortly before noon, jug-eared Ewell Blackwell walked onto the turf at Chicago's Wrigley Field. It was an hour and a half before game time. He looked around, then strolled nonchalantly to the third-base dugout. Someone offered him a chew of tobacco and asked if he was nervous. The most talked-about pitcher of the year waved away the tobacco and said: "Naw, I don't get nervous any more. Last year I used to be nervous as a cat before a game, and then I found it made me wild in the early innings...
...look to their javelins. The U.S. had a contender who threatened their long dominance in the art. In the National A.A.U. Track & Field Championships last week at Lincoln Neb., he ran up to the mark and heaved his steel-tipped spear into the air. It plunged into the turf shy of the blue flag which marked the world-record distance (258 ft., 2⅛ in.). The thrower, a curly-haired osteopath from Los Angeles named Steve Seymour, 26, had set a new U.S. record...
Doubles-Fielder Wally Northcott, wanting to cut his son Kefford in on this easy money, entered his name on the bookmakers' waiting list of the Queensland Turf Club. Informed that there were already 120 names on the list (and only three new bookies added each year), Wally Northcott said his son could stand to wait since he was only two days old. "My son," he explained, "was born June 21st, the shortest day of the year. I figured he would be naturally lazy, so the only thing to do was to make him a bookmaker...
...turf-covered plain near Delhi, a splendid assemblage gathered Jan. 1, 1877. The High Officers and Ruling Chiefs of India took their seats behind a gilt railing in an amphitheater of blue, white, gold and red, to hear Queen Victoria proclaimed first Empress of India. They rose to their feet as a flourish of trumpets announced the arrival, across 800 feet of red carpet, of His Excellency the Viceroy, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Second Baron Lytton. The proclamation was read, the Royal Standard was hoisted, and artillery fired a grand salute of 101 salvos. Mixed bands played God Save...