Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoyed your commentary on the World Marble Championship [April 11]. The "upstart colonials" are, in fact, a group of stockbrokers who found themselves in the same pub during the recent New York Stock Exchange Wednesday closings. The transition from elbow bending to shooting marbles was a natural. While it is true that we failed to appear at the championship this year, we had good reason: the application form we requested last October arrived April 2-just two days before the contest. In any event, unless we lose our marbles, we will be there next year...
Last season the Crimson won the league championship with an 8-1 record, its only loss a 5-0 shutout by the Cadets. Preseason predictions had cited Harvard and Army as the top contenders once again, but the Crimson showed little titlist form in its season-opening loss to Penn, 6-3 and Army has dropped two one-run decisions...
...State baseball player while in high school, Bob led his team to a second-place finish in the state tournament and also played on four state amateur championship teams. Bypassing football and baseball scholarship offers, and a few pro contract chances, Bob decided in favor of scholarship if he decided to stop playing baseball, and, where he could receive an exceptional education...
Tommy Wynne, who won the Arkansas two-ball Championship last year, was sixth overall for Harvard, shooting a 161 for 36 holes...
Harvard then lost a 29-13 decision to Corona Del Mar (Calif.), which remained undefeated, and won the national championship...