Word: champion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long and close struggle for the Sophomore Chess Championship between A. W. Ryder, champion, and E. E. Southard, has been decided in favor of the latter. As is known, the Sophomore championship is the championship of the lower classes in the university, and was for the first time instituted in the present term. On the basis of the fall Chess Tournament, the championship was awarded to A. W. Ryder, who has held it up to the present time...
...Freedman cup, and although they failed to equal Yale's record, yet they played a game that was good to look upon. Brown has an excellent pitcher in White, who held New York down to 11 hits. White was well supported behind the bat by Dunn, the champion hand-ball player of Brooklyn...
...Barry, the champion of the Boston Chess Club, played simultaneous games of chess with nine members of the Harvard Chess Club at their weekly meeting last night. Mr. Barry won all but three of the games as is shown by the appended score...
...record of every game played in the League championship arena during 1894, giving the name of each of the opposing pitchers in each contest. It is made specially attractive, too, by its pictorial contents, which include group pictures of all the League teams of 1894, with other champion teams outside the League. The articles on pitching, batting, fielding and base running, too, are instructive chapters, and that of the editorial comments is noteworthy. For an illustrated baseball manual the Guide for 1895 is a marvel of cheapness, its price for its 200 pages of matter being but 10 cents...
...Sweeney, champion high jumper of the world, cleared...