Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gambler tries to get the hero to toss the championship fight, and stuffs money in his coat pocket to urge him on, but the hero spurns him. On the big night at the Garden the hero is down on the canvas when he sees the gambler at the ringside grimacing at him to quit. This burns him so much that he leaps up and wins the fight, like that. Soon after, the gambler's goons throw the hero into the Hudson River, but he survives and goes to live in Germany...
Crimson sailors will stage a three-ring show this weekend sending teams to a Harvard-Yale-Princeton regatta, a star class championship, and a freshman elimination...
...Coast Guard Academy in New London today and tomorrow, Mike Post and Frank Scully will be racing for Harvard in the first Eastern Intercollegiate Star Class Championship. Competition will come from Cornell, Yale, Colgate, Boston College, Tufts, and the Coast Guard...
...will be depending on quarterback Hol French and four other veterans of last fall's crack team to keep their single-wing attack moving. Coach "Tank" Langdale isn't overly worried about his "new line," and his team is two deep in every position. Half of last year's championship first-stringers have returned for this season...
...York Yankees crashed through with 10 runs to the Brooklyn Dodgers' 6 to win the 1949 World Championship of baseball yesterday afternoon in Ebbets Field, four games...