Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foaming to victory in the 220-yard relay, last event of the meet, Eliot natators sank a championship team from Trumbull College, Yale, in the Harvard Pool Saturday...
...heavyweight boxing champion is supposed to be able to thrash any unarmed human, fights between big men often attract huge crowds which know nothing about prizefighting. Bouts between lightweights (135 Ib.) appeal chiefly to connoisseurs of fighting. Last week, two lightweights, neither of whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...
...exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance to win the lightweight championship currently held by awkward, indefatigable Lou Ambers...
Admirers of Devil Montanez hailed his clear-cut victory last week as tantamount to a championship. Venturi, who succeeded Orlandi as the best Italian lightweight, last January held Champion Ambers to a draw which many spectators thought should have been a decision for the challenger...
...with an undefeated team, while the sallors are in last place and can't boast of a single win over an E.I.S.L. opponent. They are not likely to start tonight for the Crimson team has a wealth of material, and only the Yale bugaboo stands between them and the championship...