Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last race was the Woodward Stakes on October 1, in which he finished third to Buckpasser and Royal Gunner, beating last year's divisional champion Tom Rolfe by five lengths...
...mild a word to describe Jimmy Clark's turn of luck. The best-known racing-car driver in the world, two-time Grand Prix champion, winner and twice runner-up in the Indianapolis 500, Clark had not won a Grand Prix race all year, and he had lost his world title to Australia's Jack Brabham...
...finally tramped on the throttle, he got the sweetest shock of the year. "The car ran beautifully." His luck had turned again-and so had his competitors'. Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, the early pacesetter, was forced out when his Ferrari developed engine trouble on the 34th lap. Champion Brabham took over - but a cam follower on his Brabham-Repco snapped on the 55th lap. Gunning his Lotus into the lead; Jimmy Clark stayed there the rest of the way, averaging a record 114.94 m.p.h. to win the 20th Grand Prix of his career and the biggest winner...
Harvard's 3-1 win over Columbia last Friday has placed the Crimson booters in undisputed possession of second place in the early Ivy League standings, Moving up will be quite a trick, though, as defending champion Brown is already firmly entrenched in first place, having disposed of Yale and Penn, League runners-up last year...
Harvard's lone individual champion was sophomore John Levin, who won the Class "C" competition by defeating teammate Rocky Jarvis in the finals, 7-5, 6-3. Levin and Jarvis, playing in the number-one doubles spot for Harvard, reached the semi-finals before bowing to the eventual winners, John Kirkpatrick and powerful Charlie Hoeveler of Dartmouth...