Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...photographed for the new work on physical development, which is being prepared by Dr. Sargent. Among those present, were William Byrd Page, holder of the world's record for the running high jump; A. F. Copeland, holder of the majority of American hurdle records; Frederick R. Westing, 100 yard champion of England, Ireland, Canada and America; Malcolm W. Ford, all-round athlete, and holder of many world jumping records; Frank L. Lambrecht, N. A. A. A. A., champion shot putter and hammer thrower; Thomas P. Conneff. champion one mile runner of England and Ireland, and five-mile champion of America...
Commodore Psotta, of Cornell, the amateur champion single sculler of America is going to England early in May to row for the diamond sculls at Henley. Gardner of the Oxford crew and Nichols stroke of Cambridge will compete with him. He will try to enter the four-mile Wingfield sculls in the middle of July and will go from there to the German regattas and the exposition race at Paris...
...have eight schools represented in the association, and a schedule of twenty-eight games was made out to be played by teams from those schools, The question was brought up whether to have the winner of the Exeter-Andover game play a picked nine from the association, or the champion nine. The only other business was the election of officers...
...limbs were so weak that they had to be supported. This infirmity he outgrew and overcame and at the time of his entering the University of Pennsylvania, could jump a little over five feet. From this point, constant practice and perseverance bore their fruits and Mr. Page is now champion of the world in the running high jump with a record of six feet four inches. The article is closed by the following paragraph...
...entries already number over seven hundred. The list includes some of the most famous athletes of England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, and it will be strange if several records are not-lowered. Among the men who will endeavor to break records are Westing, M. A. C., champion one hundred yards runner of the world, who will attempt to lower the present record for seventy-five yards; Copeland, M. A. C., who will try to break the record for the 250 yards hurdle race; and Donahue, the champion ice skater of the world, who will endeavor to beat...