Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring's championship 150-pound crew received another laurel yesterday as the H.A.A. voted to award major H's to every member of the undefeated first boat...
...Atlantic City, Mrs. Edna Lamb, 23, a professional oyster opener from Maurice River, N.J., won the U.S. clam-eating championship by downing 186 cherry stones in 30 minutes. This was 30 clams better than the national record hung up last year by a jitney driver named Izzy Weintraub. Defending Champion Weintraub's score...
Last week, Johnny Suggs's daughter, now 24, fought through to the final round of the Women's National Amateur Golf Championship at the Franklin Hills Country Club (Detroit). Her opponent was Fellow Atlantan Dorothy Kirby, who is considered, by home-towners, a shade the better. Dorothy, whose playing form is good, is high-strung, and apt to show it under pressure. Louise is a trim 5 ft. 3 in., with a roundhouse swing that would look good on a ballplayer swinging for the fences...
Hale Knight '50, president of the Rifle Club, took a sharpshooter rating in the senior division of the National Rifle Association matches at Camp Perry this summer. He also participated in the Michigan State Championship Rifle Association matches, where he placed second in his class. He and his brother Dave Knight '50, captain of the Varsity team, are working to form a similar association in Massachusetts...
Jerry Gorman, highest point winner last winter, invaded Canada in August to snatch the Ontario mile championship of the National Athletic Amateur Association. Coach Ulen himself was doing waterfront chores at Camp Wallula, N. H., this summer and Norm Watkins and Tom Woods were assisting...