Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varmints to contend with-some visiting Australians, survivors of 22 nations which this year challenged for the Davis Cup. It would be the first cup "challenge round" to be decided in the U.S. since Australia took the cup home eight years ago. And next week, the 67th U.S. singles championship would get under way, with the best of the world's amateur stars trying their hardest to do the unlikely and dethrone King Jake...
...outer courts, prepping for a crack at next week's singles championship, were some 60 players-about 25 of them with foreign accents. England had sent Tony Mottram and Derrick Barton. France's Robert Abdesselam, Czechoslovakia's outstanding southpaw Jaroslav Drobny were there, along with India's entire Davis Cup team (Misra, Mohan & Mehta) and Sweden's and Belgium's best...
...story of the crippled boy who conquers his handicap through athletic application was repeated last Sunday with a Harvard twist when Forbed H. Norris, Jr. '49, representing the University, won the Senior National A. A. U. long distance swimming championship at Williams Lake, Rosendale, New York...
...effort paid off with another national championship when Norris outswam the 26-man field--recruited from all over the country--at Williams Lake...
...tightest and most expertly rowed of all six races, Joe Eldredge nosed out a former titlist, Tom Day, who finished second, and Bill Dowd, clerk of course, and Julie Eisenstein, both of whom tied for third, for the senior singles championship. Not more than a length separated all your oarsmen. Eldredge was timed...