Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding primitives is an early American bicycle made by John T. Moody, of Newburyport. Moody, when 16 years old, won the Massachusetts Championship on Boston Common in 1878 with this crude bike...
...Eastern Swimming League is almost entirely an Ivy proposition, including: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Navy, and Penn. Although the team will take water against several other colleges, it is within the sacred ranks of this League that all attention will be centered; and the League Championship which will necessarily include an Eli scalp, is the Lotus Isle toward which these mermen will be swimming all season...
...arrived in the U. S., a son was born to a rural schoolman named Martin on a farm near Marion, Ill. Named Homer, the boy grew up lithe, springy, idealistic, became a star track man at Missouri's tiny William Jewell college, won the national hop, step & jump championship in 1924. Having begun preaching when he was 19, he was dubbed "The Leaping Parson." In 1931, brimming with zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most of his 400 parishioners were employes...
...Vines fainted at the match point in the fifth set. Vines became a professional later in 1933. Until last week, the closest thing to a contemporary showdown between Perry and Vines was an afternoon of informal practice when Perry was playing in and Vines reporting the U. S. Amateur Championship at Forest Hills last summer. At Forest Hills, Vines won every set they played. Last week, he was a top-heavy favorite to put his superiority on record...
Medal play in golf is based on total scores for 18 holes. Match play is based on scores for each of the 18. The U. S. Open Championship is medal play. The U. S. Amateur Championship used to be two days of medal play followed by a match play tournament among the 32 lowest scorers. Because some of the ablest players often missed getting into the low 32, the U. S. Golf Association three years ago decided to change to match play throughout. This system proved tedious, uninteresting. Last week, at its annual meeting, the U. S. G. A. announced...