Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climaxing their season, the Harvard Rugby team will face Yale this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. The Elis are slight favorites to beat the Harvard fifteen, and boast one of the strongest teams in the East...
...race. Brooklyn and his stablemate Billionaire were originally favored because horses from the stable of their owner, whose horses' names always begin with B, have won the Kentucky Derby four times; and because Owner Bradley had bet $10,000 to $11,000 with Owner Louchheim that Brooklyn would beat Pompoon, winter book favorite. Twice Bradley horses have finished in tandem position in winning the Derby (Behave Yourself & Black Servant in 1921, Bubbling Over & Bagenbaggage in 1926). Since last week's race was the second one in which the pair have finished second and third this spring, there seemed...
...Budapest, Belgium beat Hungary...
...Amsterdam, South Africa beat The Netherlands...
...Montreux, Switzerland beat Ireland...