Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebration was just getting under way in the Yankee dressing room when Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail made a little speech. It was his first World Series championship in 18 years of baseball and also his last. He was retiring, he said. "Thank the Lord I can go out with a winner...
...outpoint the shadows of his own past. This time he dropped his guard and caught one on the chin. Exiled from New York rings eight months ago for not reporting a $100,000 bribe offer, Rocky went off limits to Chicago and won the world's middleweight championship. In 58 fights, he had become the biggest drawing card in boxing, after Joe Louis. Last week, he faced exile from practically all U.S. boxing rings...
...performance rates as the better of the two. Felton hurls the discus as well as various other weights and this summer established himself as one of the best weightmen in the United States. After placing third in the IC4A hammer throw last spring Felton won the national Canadian championship and placed second in the national A.A.U. meet in Lincoln, Nebraska, this summer. Working under Varsity weight coach Ed Flanagan, he has been practicing his hammer throwing this fall and consistently throwing over 170 feet. Only one man in the country currently is throwing the ball and wire any farther than...
...Trimble, the track team's other hope, operates in the javelin throw and last spring won the Nonagonal championship with a heave of 205 feet; but in California a man named Steve Seymour has reached the 248 foot mark and a couple of others in the country have gone as high as 220. Last year, however, was Trimble's first season in bigtime competition and Coach Jaakko Mikkola looks for improvement...
...team will have no practice tomorrow but a short workout is scheduled for tomorrow morning at West Point. On Saturday at the Business School Field the idle Freshmen and Jayvee teams will tangle for the unofficial left-behind championship...