Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trophy. The gold cup won by Zev was presented by the American Jockey Club as a perpetual challenge cup for international three-year-old racing.
British Women's. Golfing dames and damsels of old England bowed again to the prowess of their queen, Miss Joyce Wethered. In play at Ganton, Yorkshire, Mrs. Lodge of Burhill was the last to challenge Miss Wethered for her amateur crown and was routed utterly, 8 and 7.
But Turner in England, Delacroix in France, reacted against the orthodox tradition. They were dimly aware of the uses of color, and, though they probably would not recognize their spiritual descendants, they fathered the long line of impressionists, neo-impressionists, pointillists, postimpressionists, cubists, orphists, synchromists and what not, whom the...
Thumping along 40 strokes to the minute in his singles scull, W. E. Garrett Gilmore of Baltimore left Walter Hoover of Duluth sweating four lengths astern after rowing a mile and a quarter down the St. Louis River. Gilmore stepped ashore and was handed the Philadelphia Challenge Cup, emblematic of...
The English Horse. Papyrus, son of Tracery, is owned by Ben Irish. Though not unanimously endorsed by other English owners as England's greatest horse, he will be backed by many a pound and shilling. Before coming to America he will run the St. Leger Stakes. First upon this...