Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late summer, at least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides the juvenile...
...father, Alfred Chapin Clapp, was an insurance broker of East Orange, N.J., He was a kindly man with a small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
Cornell proved it had plenty left from last year's championship Ivy soccer team when it scored three early goals Saturday and gave Bruce Munro's Crimson forces a 3 to 1 beating on the Business School Field...
House squad coaches again figure Kirkland House as the team to beat this year. The Deacons have practically the same flashy team which copped the league championship last year and then went on to beat Yale's Berkeley College. The Kirkland line averages just over 190 pounds, and the backfield features what it coach calls a "bunch of tricky passers...
Following their regular schedule, the seven house teams will make the long trek down to New Haven on November 18th to face their traditional rival colleges at Yale; the respective top league teams will at the same time fight their annual battle for the two-college championship...