Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed also said to Senator Borah: "You have diverted attention from the vastly more important questions upon which that issue [Prohibition enforcement] rests. You have also in a measure diverted attention from the fact that you yourself are a potential candidate . . . from the equally evident fact that your championship of this particular issue puts you on a favorable position to have its organized friends . . . stampede the convention to you in the event of a deadlock...
...seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held to the end of the game, beating Duryee 50 to 30, and so winning a diamond studded medal, $300, and, for the third time in succession, the horseshoe pitching championship of the world...
...iron stake 40 ft. away, protruding 8 in. above a bed of potters clay. Then his opponent does likewise. The shoe that lands nearest the stake scores 1 point; a ringer 3 points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers and a straight edge are used to determine accurately which horseshoe is nearest the stake. But in casual bouts a player often shouts: "My horseshoe is two fingers nearer than yours...
...tournament of the indoor league the University riders have played three of their four games, winning them all. If the team succeeds in defeating the Optimists by better than its six point handicap, it stands well in line, for the championship of the league, and the retention of the Plummer...
...annual University boxing championship will start on Monday, March 26, at 4.30 o'clock, it was announced last night at the Harvard Athletic Association. On that day the preliminary contests will get under way, with the finals being held on March...