Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHICAGO--The vaunted New York Yankees hailed by many wise men as the greatest team ever gathered together, tomorrow will begin the drive for a third successive world's championship and a world's record against the amazing Chicago Cubs, National League champions who came from nowhere to capture the pennant in a blazing September finish...
Over the summer the Yacht Club won the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association championship through the skillful sailing of Philip Reed Jr. '40 and John F. Kennedy '40 and their crews sailing at Wiano last June...
...ranking lady golfers who came to the U. S. for the biennial Curtis Cup matches fortnight ago, phlegmatic Estelle Lawson Page and temperamental Patty Berg reached the final for the second year in a row-some-thing that had never happened before in a national golf championship...
...which his doubles partner, Budapest-born Gene Mako, unseeded because of insufficient singles play, pricked the big Bromwich bubble, 6-3, 7-5. 6-4. For the first time since the Tilden-Hunter final in 1929, a pair of U. S. doubles champions faced one another for the Singles championship...
...within a point of defeat before taking the match, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5. Next day, playing against Nancye Wynne, 21-year-old Melbourne stenographer who had beaten California's Dorothy Bundy on her way to the final, Alice Marble needed just 22 minutes to win the championship...