Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crimson squash captain Alvah W. Sulloway '38 Friday was defeated by George Cookman of Yale for the third annual intercollegiate squash racquets tournament championship held last week at the University Club in New York. Cookman won, 9-15, 15-11, 12-15, 16-15, 17-15. Both Sulloway and Cookman triumphed in the semi-finals held Thursday. At that time Sulloway had little difficulty in winning his match, but Cookman was hard pressed. Both captains were endeavoring to duplicate the feats of their predecessors who have won the cup the last two years...
Each spring almost every team in both baseball leagues announces confidently that it will win the pennant; before the championship fight both challenger and defender are sure they will knock out the other. Likewise, in beginning this year's dogfight, the government and big business, with labor sandwiched somewhere in between, have sounded the note of war. The Administration, which should, because of its position, be acquainted with the virtues of tact and temperance, has obviously blown its trumpet too hard and very flat. On the other side, both business and labor have shown by their utterances that they...
...years, Connie Mack is not disheartened. "I certainly hope to be back waving a score card next spring," he said. "I am putting myself in condition now for the forthcoming campaign. . . . It's such a little time I've been around. I want to have one more championship...
...Professional Halfback "Slingin' Sam" Baugh of the world champion Washington Redskins completed 81 passes (in 171 attempts) during the season (not including 17 completed in the play-off for the championship last fortnight)-a new National Football League record...
Panted Victor Schmeling: "I hope now I will be entitled to a fight for the championship against Joe Louis...