Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...racket used by Dr. Dwight, (made by Wright and Ditson) in his late match with Mr. W. Renshaw was very much admired by the English champion, who proposes to get one like...
Hendee, the champion bicycle rider, is now in New Haven preparing to enter Sheff, '87. [News...
...girls does a day's manual labor in the whole year round : indeed the majority of them never did one in their lives. They grow, but they do not develop. It has been argued that the system of athletics generally pursued makes those who practice it essentially prize-fighters, champion oarsmen, "wasting their time and devoting all their thoughts to some feat of athletic prowess." In rebuttal of this statement, Mr. Blaikie instances President Eliot and Professor Agassiz of Harvard and Dr. McCosh and Mr. Gladstone. "Yet the former two did excellent work in their university boat. Princeton's famous...
...George, the English amateur pedestrian champion, recently tried to break the one mile record...
George M. Hendee, the bicycle champion, will ride a 10 mile race with A. H. Robinson of England next Saturday. Mr. Hendee proposes to break, if he can, the 10 miles record, 31 m. 22 1-2s., made by Burnham at New Haven...