Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must more effectively deflect a spinning ball when the barometer is at thirty inches than when it is at twenty-nine inches. At cricket, even with the most perfect wickets, the break must be notably affected by accidental peculiarities of the ground. We have all of us seen the champion step forth from his place, while the ball was dead, to pat the ground where the ball was likely to pitch, and we have even occasionally seen him apparently successful in discovering some small stone or lump of hard earth which he has incontinently thrown away. (It has been said...
...soon as the winter vacation was over, the candidates began to train regularly in the gymnasium. Three or four hundred strokes on the machines, a little light dumb-bell exercise and a short run up North avenue constituting the regular daily exercise. During the winter, Hanlan, the champion oarsman, visited the gymnasium and seemed very much interested in the work of the crew. He made several comments upon the rowing which were, of course, of great...
Saturday morning the game between the Victors and Volunteers, the winners of the two series in the amateur championship contest, was played on Jarvis. The Victors won easily, by a score of 13 to 4, outbatting and outfielding their opponents. The members of the champion nine are as follows: Federhen, '88; Raymond, '89; Edwards, '88; Farnham, '88; Hurey, L. S.; De Lone, '87; Vorse, '89; Quinlan, '90; Ruland, '89; C. S. Hervey, '88, (captain). The Volunteers were given their last innings. The score...
...influence to fill the vacancy at once. The adoption of such a course would be of material aid to the finances of the club, besides being in harmony with the sentiment of the University. Williams would probably fill the vacancy more acceptably than any other college. She is champion of the Intercollegiate League, has defeated Harvard and hence is very evidently the most worthy rival that the present members of the College League would be able to choose...
...reasons therefor have been amply demonstrated in the results which have attended the admission of Columbia. But even if Harvard should decide to waive the evident advantages of a league with Princeton and Yale alone, why should Williams be chosen as the fourth college? She is not yet the champion of the Intercollegiate League. Dartmouth has given evidence of a strong nine. Why should her claims be cast aside? Did not Cornell defeat the Williams team on its own grounds? Williams has defeated a Harvard nine, to be sure, but if we remember rightly Amherst defeated the champion Yale nine...