Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moments. Occasionally, when the duelists are both fine swordsmen, the struggle may last for twenty or thirty minutes. When one is wounded he is led away and his victor must fight a fresh foe. If he succeeds in vanquishing all comers he is declared the class champion and is obliged to fight all challengers. The wound received is not dangerous but always leaves a scar, and almost every student one meets in a university town bears the marks of his encounters upon his face. Strange to say these scars are not considered proof of his unskillfulness but as marks...
...club should enter the League of American Wheelmen in order that the records should be accepted as valid. The New Haven clubs have also agreed to turn out at that time in full force, and thus lend all in their power to make the meeting a success. Hendee, the champion, will enter these races and try to lower the records in every distance up to ten miles. There may be some of the fastest riding ever seen in this country at the meet. The club will have social meetings at intervals through the winter, in order to keep...
...glad to learn that already some of those who hope to compete this year at the Polo Grounds have already begun to get into condition. The competition there is growing year by year greater and greater, and a college champion now if he were to enter in the amateur championships would be fairly sure of being among the first three in his event. Thus as the competition increases so must the previous training be more and more careful...
...shot, none of them have as yet done anything in preparation for this year's events, nor do we know of anyone who has been practicing the pole jump. These events are not easy ones-they need steady application to succeed in them. No one can become a champion in pole jumping by only a few weeks work. The Athletic Association, therefore, we think, should take immediate steps towards our being properly represented in these events next year at the Polo Grounds...
Hendee, the champion bicycle rider. has won prizes the past two years to the amount of two thousand dollars...