Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With E. T. Gerry '31, captain of last year's championship Freshman team, and G. O. Clark '31, leading scorer of that aggregation, as teammates for Captain Clark, the University team is considered potentially strong. Tonight's encounter will be one of the regular League games of the Commonwealth Polo Club of which the University team is a member in the senior division. The University Second team which opened its season with an overwhelming victory over the Battery A group last Saturday, and the Freshman team which meets the University Seconds for its initial game next Saturday are members...
...defeat of the first team in its match at the University Squash Courts on Saturday, reduces the University to a tie for third place in the race for the Metropolitan League Championship...
When he speculated upon the most common of all human pastimes, Talking, it appeared to Milton ("Dance Marathon") Crandall that the purpose of this sport was to see who could talk the longest. Accordingly he announced a "noun and verb rodeo, the world's championship gab-fest," and set up a ticket-taker at the gate of an armory in Manhattan...
...sportsman, himself a boxer of the first order, Anthony Biddle last week inaugurated a return to the sporting traditions of a hundred years ago by buying, for his personal amusement, an interest in a professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds of a fight...
...human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest pf villagers, the prophecies of Hebrew elders, the affection of restive German soldiers, the championship of officers, the pique of a Prussian super-official...