Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mountains of fat and muscle who boast that they eat ten times the daily ration of the ordinary Japanese. Anciently sumo (literally "horn power") was a contest of strength between trained bulls. Today 1,200 professional wrestlers, divided into teams, "The East" and "The West," perform at two great championship bouts of ten days' length twice yearly. Each tries to force or throw his individual opponent out of a ring; each has practiced to perfection the "twelve throws, twelve lifts, twelve twists and twelve throws over the back." Occidentals present at these matches are typically...
...With the championship of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association in their possession for the fourth successive season, the Crimson racquet men are looking forward to the opening of the National Team Championship tournament which they have won for the last two years. This year the title clash will be held in Detroit on February 20, 21, and 22. Last year the officials of the national body decided against allowing players to compete in both the team and the individual championships, and as a result the members of the University team will not have a chance at the individual title...
Although no undergraduates will compete for the individual title, the Crimson will be represented by W. P. Dixon '25, former star on the University five, and defender of the title, and R. S. Wright '26, number one mar on last year's championship team. G. D. Debevoise '26. Crimson captain last year, will play on the New York Squash Racquets Club team for team honors...
Harvard, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Boston College, M. I. T., Baskell Institute and Bates will participate in the race, putting it on a competitive basis equal to the L. C. 4-A, championship event which comes later this winter at Madison Square Garden...
...cast is distinguished by veteran and as well as new talent, and reads like a combined football and baseball lineup. The hero, Norman Rockwell, is portrayed by R. H. Booth '27, who is aided in his strenuous role by his pitching experience on last year's championship university baseball team. He is enamoured of one. Mary West, coy maid of the great open spaces, whose charms are subtly interpreted by Howard Whitmore '29, star not only of the stage but also of last year's Freshman team pitching staff...