Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams in the prep school class will compete for a leg on the Harvard Interscholastic Swimming Championship Cup, donated by Arthur W. Stevens '97 and given permanently to the school which wins it five times. Andover has won the trophy for two successive years and will battle Exeter for the leg on it tomorrow. Although Huntington School has been runner-up both years in this class, it was defeated last week-end 54-14 by Exeter, which has an exceptionally strong team and which is expected to battle Andover for team honors...
...printed remarks of Commentator's commentators were neither new nor original, contained no editorial dynamite. Lowell Thomas dug up old yarns of German inflation. John B. Kennedy contributed an argument against the winning of the heavyweight championship by Negro Joe Louis Barrow on the ground that it would irritate Negrophobes. Mr. Kaltenborn, most literate of the commentators, offered an old interview with Spain's late Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno. Hearst's Edwin C. Hill wrote on political bosses, concluded that hypocrisy was a bad thing. Floyd Gibbons gave an unexciting account of his attempts to broadcast from...
...Calcutta. In the whole worl there are possibly 2,000 men who play racquets. Last week, in New York's Racquet & Tennis Club, two of them started something which, owing to the scarcity competition, occurs on an average of once a decade: a match for the open championship of the world...
...Philadelphia 1913, won it back in 1929, held it until his death in 1935. Setzler, son of a Buffalo corset salesman, was apprenticed to his father's friend, George Standing, longtime New York Racquet Club professional, in 1920. Last year, at 31, he won the U. S.open championship against socialite experts like Clarence Pell, Stanley G. Mortimer, Huntington Sheldon. Milford won the British open and amateur championships last year. Setzler's victory last week was not conclusive. He and Milford play again in London next April. After their second match, the man who has won the most games...
Additional schools are expected to register in both classes, including Andover, winner for the past two years in the prep school division and thus holder of two legs on the Harvard Interscholastic Swimming Championship Cup. The cup, donated by Arthur W. Stevens '97, will become the property of the school winning it five times...