Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Williams will start a veteran team which suffered the usual spring trip losses to Duke and Navy, then settled down to beat Loyola, Union, and Tufts. (Williams beat Tufts, 8 to 3, Harvard won, 13 to 7.) The Ephmen also looked surprisingly well in losing to undefeated Yale by only two goals...
Trainer Harry Daniels had shipped along some California hay to mix with the Kentucky brand, so that the chestnut colt would feel as much at home as possible. Veteran Jockey Johnny Longden had flown in from the West Coast to ride him in the seven-furlong prep race. The competition included Tulsa Oilman Tom Gray's Oil Capitol-Kentucky Derby favorite (5-2) and one of the best of the three-year-old crop by anybody's standards...
...Sidelines. Howe had been one of the reasons for Red Wing success all year. The trio of Howe, veteran Center Sid Abel and Wingman Ted Lindsay had scored more points (215) than any other three men in National League hockey this season. The question was: How could Detroit win the Stanley Cup with one of the trio on the sidelines...
...Veteran Joe Carveth, 32, was hauled into the regular lineup, and with Lindsay and Abel playing in their usual style, the Red Wings came from behind to beat Toronto in their half of the cup semifinals, four games to three. Meanwhile the New York Rangers had crushed Montreal, four games...
Died. Muriel Starr, 62, veteran Canadian-born Broadway character actress, who enjoyed her greatest success touring Australia with American hit shows (Madame X, The Thirteenth Chair) during World War I and the early '20s; of a heart attack after her first-act performance in The Velvet Glove; in Manhattan...