Word: champion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final match of the state tennis singles for the right to challenge R. C. Seaver, the state champion, N. W. Niles '09 defeated H. Johnson, 6-3, 6-0, 6-4. Johnson was unable, during the first two sets, to solve Niles's service, but the last set was close and Niles was forced to exert himself to the utmost in order to win. Last year Niles was defeated in the fourth round. F. J. Sulloway '05, who challenged Seaver last year, was put out in the first round this year by A. Sweetser...
...Gardner cleared the ten hurdles in, 44 1-5 seconds, lowering the former record of F. F. Puffer, made over the same course in 1894, by three-fifths of a second. He was matched against C. Bacon and L. Dorland, of the Pastime A. C., the former the Olympic champion hurdler, and Hartranft, former intercollegiate champion of the University of Pennsylvania, who finished in the order mentioned. His nearest competitor was ten yards behind...
...gold medal will be awarded to the champion, and a silver medal to the runner...
...University lacrosse team will play the University of Toronto in the Stadium at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Harvard is now champion of the intercollegiate league but the Toronto team is strong and the game promises to be close...
Besides these two games, which are the principal features of an ice carnival for the benefit of the Sharon Sanitarium, Irving Brokaw, former American champion, and Fritz Schmitt, of Berlin, will give an exhibition of skating figures. In the evening, there will be races of 440-yards, a half-mile, and a mile...