Word: workouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories Aussies tell about the twomile, hell-for-leather cup race that is now far & away the biggest sporting event of teh Australian year. In 1930, when bookies were faced with bankruptcy if Phar Lap won, a car pulled up near the great horse after a workout and a rifle cracked several times. The bullets did not touch Phar Lap (and he ran and won). But in 1941 a horse name El Golea was shot by gamblers who had mistaken him for a stablemate, the red-hot Melbourne Cup favorite, Beau Vite...
Next night, as their 90-match tour began before 13,357 fans in Madison Square Garden, Pancho got his first workout as a pro. He rocked back and let go with his big weapon-a hard, high-twisting serve. Kramer, tense and continually wiping the palm of his racket hand between shots, fired Pancho's big serves right back and won the opening game. Then Pancho broke Kramer's equally big and more accurate serve...
Yesterday's was one of the longer and rougher practice sessions of the fall. It was longer because no time was devoted to dummy drill for the reason that the absence of several key men on account of hour exams and sundry other scholastic commitments made such a workout impractical. Just why it seemed rougher, or more spirited, than usual is hard...
...tackle Dick Guidera and tailback Jimmy Noonan are both expected to see action against Princeton. Noonan was one of the 13 men hurt in the Army game and was restricted to holding the ball on extra point attempts against the Crusaders. He did the passing in yesterday's workout, along with Charlie Roche and Carroll Lowenstein...
There was a time early in the season when Art Valpey said he had made arrangements to have all practice sessions in clear weather. As a matter of record it has not rained enough on a practice day since then to in any way disrupt the workout. True to form, the skies cleared beautifully yesterday afternoon just before the practice began...