Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leonard Seppalla, of Nome, Alaska, oldtime musher, drove his Siberian husky dogs to their third consecutive victory in the New England sled-dog racing championship, last week at Laconia, N. H. Emil St. Goddard, of The Pas, Manitoba, recognized as Seppalla's master as a racer, finished second with a team of wolfhounds which lacked speed and stamina for the three-day trudge over a 128-mile course...
Washington he finished seventh and last in the world's championship 18.2 balkline billiard tournament, winning not a game. Last week he began the 1929 tournament in New York by vanquishing Edouard Horemans, of Belgium, the sleek, wavy-haired, temperamental titleholder, 400 to 292. Then he outcued Felix Grange of France, then Eric Hagenlacher of Germany. His chances of winning seemed so good that he calmly announced: "I really believe that I'll go right through the field...
...billiard championship means a $6,000 salary for a year, during which the title need not be defended; $2,500 in cash; a percentage of the championship tournament receipts; a diamond emblem; several thousands of dollars in fees for exhibition matches...
...Saturday the University Class B team won the championship of the Massachusetts squash league competition, when it defeated Lincoln's Inn Society 3 to 2. The winners won 35 games during the season, and lost only 10; they maintained a lead of at least five games on the second-place University Club throughout the competition...
...Freshman team is built around a nucleus of Ordway Southard '32 and C. D. Laine '32 who are members of the University team which, besides successfully defending its Intercollegiate Championship, now bids fair to capture the Massachusetts Metropolitan League title...