Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...champion editorial writer in college, or champion literatus, is surely an honor worth striving for. If this offering of prizes is successful in awakening increased literary endeavor, it certainly merits commendation. That it will be commendable can hardly be doubted. Even $10 has been known to appeal to many a brain and pen. While it is pretty generally true that what is written for money is not of the best quality, yet it is also true that what would be written, for money without it is often not written at all. Then, too, in time the poorer motive of money...
...friendly tennis match on the Longwood grounds Saturday, R. D. Sears, the amateur champion of New England, defeated Thomas Pettit, the champion court tennis player of the world. The match was the best in five games, and Sears won the first 6-2, Petite the second 6-5,and the others won by Sears...
...Yale College Bicycle Club will hold a meeting at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on next Friday and Saturday. Hendee, American champion; Hamilton, college champion; Hunter, winner of the Pope cup; Wait, Parsons, Webber, and Allston are among the entries. The leading features of the first day will be the mile tandem race by Palmer and Thompson; Hendee's endeavor to beat the world's record for one mile, and the twenty mile Pope cup race. On the second day will be run the twenty five mile L. A. W. championship of America. Part of the proceeds will be devoted...
...Harvard lacrosse team yesterday defeated the Druids, the champion amateur lacrosse team of the United States, by a score of five goals to three...
...Amherst college tennis tournament will begin to-day, and the association offer as a prize to the college champion a $15 racquet...