Word: champion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition, the fencers will dine at the Harvard Club. Among those competing are Rene Peroy, Robert Grasson, Joseph Levis, Lieutenant Stephen Conroy, E. H. Lane '24 and E. L. Lane '24. Coach Peroy was a member of the Olympic fencing team last year, and he has been National Foils Champion for three consecutive years in the past. Robert Grasson, Yale fencing coach, who is reputed to be the best in the country, will meet Peroy in three bouts...
After the conclusion of the fall touch football games this afternoon, when the winner of the Independent League meets Morris II, champion team in the Business School group, the first games of the Fraternity Indoor Baseball League will be played at the Freshman Athletic building in the evening...
...Pool II '28, national titleholder, and H.N. Rawlins, Jr. '27 of the Racquet and Tennis Club, 1928 champion and present holder of the Canadian and Metropolitan crowns, head the list of 16 players who will take part in the tournament. G.D. Debevoise '26, another former, Crimson star, will also play in the tourney, which will be held tomorrow and Sunday...
...They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably excited. At Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam chess followers saw the astounding spectacle of a challenger carrying a match to the world's champion. Once Bogoljubow, in defiance of all tradition, passed up a sure draw to gamble on a doubtful win. Last week, back in Wiesbaden, he startled onlookers by leaving his knight unprotected after an exchange of queens. Dr. Alekhine declined this Grecian gift. He only needed to draw to complete...
Eastern boxing arbiters regard with disfavor the roughness of towheaded middle-weight contender Ace Hudkins. They regard with suspicion the astuteness of Jack Kearns, manager of Middle-weight Champion Mickey Walker. Before Hudkins and Walker got in a ring together one cool starry night in Los Angeles last week, rumors went about that Kearns had a contract in his pocket to manage Hudkins. These rumors kept betting down, but proved unfounded as soon as Walker's first rights and lefts thudded home. Before long Hudkins' coarse face, misshapen by the beatings he is accustomed to take even when...