Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of red-cheeked British women carried their "brollies" (umbrellas) around the golf links at Newcastle, in County Down, Ireland, last week. A few of them pursued small white balls over the humid turf, for the women's championship of Great Britain was in progress...
Stanford and Southern California lived up to expectations leading the field in the number of men qualified, the former with 14 and the latter with 10. Although Stanford enters today's competition still a heavy favorite to carry off championship honors, the most surprising upset of the first day occurred to one of the Californians best runners. Emerson Spencer, generally picked to depose Cecil Cooke, giant Syracuse negro, from his place as the premier quarter miler in college ranks, was forced out of the meet by falling to take better than a fourth in his qualifying heat...
...McKinlock Hall dormitory crew, which won the dormitory championship last week, defeated the Middlesex oarsmen by three lengths in a half mile tilt on the Charles yesterday afternoon. In this clash the dormitory eight lead from the start and displayed a brand of watermanship and rowing ability clearly superior to that of the schoolboys, covering the half mile in 2 minutes 43 1-5 seconds...
...race last week by which the McKinlock oarsmen wrested the championship from the other dormitory eights, they covered the three quarter mile course in 4 minutes 7 seconds. This is better time than is done usually by the University eights for the first three quarters of a mile in a two mile race...
...Junior and Sophomore class tennis teams, selected to play in the interclass tournament for the championship honors of the University, were announced last night. The appointment of John Orren Ross '29, of Redding, Connecticut, to the second assistant managership of the University tennis team, was also announced then. Frederick Irving Chase '29, of Brookline, Massachusetts, received the managership of the second team, and Malcolm Trowbridge Freeman '30, of Flushing. Long Island, the Freshman managerial position Ross will automatically become University manager in his senior year...