Word: championship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world figure-skating championships in Colorado Springs, two-time Champion David Jenkins, 22, fell behind in the compulsory figures but recouped with a fine free-skating performance to keep his title. The women's division was no contest at all for green-eyed Carol Heiss, 19, of Ozone Park, N.Y., who romped off with her fourth straight championship, hinted later that she might retire soon from competition...
John Davis, the Crimson's number six man, won the consolation championship at the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament held this weekend at Princeton. Davis beat Yale's number four player John Oettinger, in the final round in an exciting five-game match...
...consolation title, Davis eliminated Navy's fourth man, John Harmuth, in the semifinals, and he also defeated number five Midshipman John Lattimer in the championship tournament. These losses along with Wally Stimpson's consolation conquest of Navy captain Tony LaSalla, would seem to give strength to the feeling that Navy is vastly less effective away from its steamy, noisy, cramped courts...
...season of Ivy League basketball in which two teams completely dominated the standings will come to a rousing climax tonight as Dartmouth and Princeton play off for the championship in Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
Yale, supporting a 4-1 Ivy League record, has at least three wrestlers considered championship threats in next weekend's Easterns at Cornell. They are 123-pounder Andy Fitch, Hardy Will--at 177--and heavy weight Bing Sherrill...