Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shadow, in the airless heat, watched him without moving. This was an important evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline billiard champion of the world before he had a beard, now challenger to the German, Eric Hagenlacher, he was making a final effort to get his championship. After a run of 23 he failed. Hagenlacher, very pale, began to click his white ivory ball against another white ivory ball and a red ivory ball. He made a run of 283, his best run of the evening. Hoppe could not keep the balls together as he could when...
...clock Saturday night the University polo team will clash with the championship Yale trio in the Commonwealth Armory...
Turner, who was undefeated last year and who in addition won the New England Intercollegiate championship, Captain Wood, Howe, and Wilson are veterans who are expected to give a good account of themselves. Lifrak, who will be seen in action in the 145-pound event, starred on the mat last year as Freshman Captain. He is wrestling in the place formerly held by C.C. Corson...
Captain Lesit in the 175 pound event is Columbia's main threat. For the last two years he has been one of the leading contenders for the Intercollegiate championship, placing last year...
Last year, the University won the championship with three victories. The present Crimson team gives promise of repeating the extraordinary success of last year...