Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After re-reading the testimony of the hearing held last September to determine whether Bridges should be deported as a Communist, Dean Landis reported last week to the Department of Labor that he did not think Bridges was a Communist...
...This week, on the same court where they were bagged just three years ago almost to a day, a new flock of Blackbirds, with a winning streak of 42, will meet Southern California, year in & year out one of the most formidable basketball teams in the country. If they can outshoot Sam Barry's Trojans, Clair Bee's boys will earn their reputation as a college basketball team second to none...
...Last week Chicago quit intercollegiate football, asked to be released from games scheduled for 1940 and 1941. Said the Board of Trustees: "The university believes in athletics and in a comprehensive program of physical education for all students. It believes its particular interests and conditions are such that its students now derive no special benefit from intercollegiate football. . . . The university will continue to promote intramural sports and will encourage all students to participate in them. . . . The university trusts that its withdrawal from intercollegiate football will not require termination of its long and satisfactory relationship with other members of the intercollegiate...
Florida's 96-day racing season starts with 17 days at Tropical Park, ten miles southwest of Miami, continues with a 46-day meeting at swank Hialeah Park, six miles northwest of Miami, winds up with a 33-day return engagement at Tropical. Last week 10,000 Miami visitors flocked to Tropical Park to see the 1940 U. S. horse-racing season break from the barrier. Meanwhile U. S. railbirds from coast to coast pored over the 1939 betting results, posted by United Press...
Rawboned Byron Nelson of Fort Worth won the U. S. Open, Western Open, North-South Open, Massachusetts Open, Phoenix Open, never finished out of the money in any golf tournament he entered in 1939. Last week Texan Nelson received the Harry Vardon Trophy, awarded annually (on a stroke basis) to the No. 1 professional golfer of the year. In 24 tournaments (75 18-hole rounds) he averaged 70.84 strokes per round...