Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rapport, Polish, 22, of New York City, challenged Mr. Kelly to a polar marathon, claimed that Mr. Kelly's pretentions to the squatting championship were fraudulent in the extreme, inasmuch as he (Mr. Rapport) had once sat on a Parisian flagpole for 21 days. One Hugo Bihler, just-arrived German immigrant, who speaks no English, also challenged for the Sitting Sweepstakes, as did an unidentified Bostonian. Cried Mr. Kelly, belligerently, "Let those guys pick their poles and sit!" But none...
...international hard-court tennis championships at St. Cloud, France, lasted a fortnight. As the finals approached, the temper of the crowd sizzled at fever heat, the umpires' decisions became erratic, the serves of William T. Tilden II of the U. S. hissed like rockets, and although his nerves were beginning to crack, it seemed inevitable that he would win the singles championship...
...Umpire Muhr to watch his service closely. He then served four successive aces and soon brought the game score 9-to-8 in his favor. After that, spectators debated whether Tilden wilted or whether Lacoste became invincible, but the fact remained that Lacoste took three straight games and the championship. The match score...
...lost a pitching duel to Foster Sanford Jr., enabling the Quaker star to win a 4 to 1 victory for Pennsylvania Saturday afternoon, the latter's second triumph this season over the Crimson. The game substantially strengthen the claim of the Quakers to the mythical Eastern collegiate baseball championship, they having won the Quadrangular league championship last Friday, and having just one more game to play with a record of 19 victories and five defeats...
...cabaret, appears in society under the patronage of a handsome gentleman friend, distresses her amiable prizefighting boy friend. But the drinking, lovemaking, gambling of the upper crust disgust her tender soul so much- that she returns just in time to cheer her prizefighter on to championship. A luridly punning sub-titier adds to the fun. Thus the Czechoslovakian princess is said to have "married twice but her Czechs were no good...