Word: champion
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...English tennis ranking for the season, which includes the Americans who contested in the international tournament last year, H. L. Doherty, the English champion and winner of the international tournament is first. The others in order are B. C. Wright '03, N. E. Brookes of Australia, S. H. Smith, H. Ward '00, W. A. Larned and A. W. Gore. W. J. Clothier '04 is rated seventeenth...
...withdrawal of E. H. Clark '96, the former champion all-round athlete of America, who was entered for the Pentathon, left Sheridan the only American entry in that event, but Sullivan has been provisionally entered by the committee. There is a probability that Parsons of California, who last year won the Amateur Athletic Union Championship at Portland, Ore., will go to Athens as a member of the team. He is at present a student in Wisconsin University. Also E. B. Parsons of Yale will probably go to Athens with the team, although he has not decided definitely. As a whole...
...this country. It includes five entries: running 192 metres, standing broad-jump, throwing the discus, hurling the javelin, and Graeco-Roman wrestling. The athlete must compete in all five of these events, and must win three to secure the prize. Sheridan, the American entry, is the all-round champion of the United States and holder of the record at throwing the discus in the American style...
...Wednesday the swimming team of the New York Athletic Club gave an interesting exhibition in Brokaw Tank. E. H. Adams, the United States champion long distance plunger, made a new record of 70 feet, six inches. C. M. Daniels who holds the world's championship for one hundred yards, and the American championship for all distances illustrated three strokes among them the crawl, a stroke for which he is especially noted. Exhibition games of English "soccer" and American water polo were played by the team...
...Lage, the captain of the Technology team, did the best work, winning all six bouts. W. L. Bowman 2L. excelled for Harvard with five out of six bouts to his credit. His losing to Lage was a surprise, as he was champion of the Pennsylvania division in 1903 and 1904, and at present is the holder of the New England championship. The best bouts were those between A. Tyng sS., captain of the University team, and Lage; and between Bowman and Lage, both of which bouts required an extra two minute period...