Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot's unbeaten hockey team clinched the House championship for the second year in a row yesterday by defeating Lowell 4 to 1. The second place Winthrop squad, which has lost only its game with Eliot, beat Leverett...
Whatever happened to Vodicka, the Prague government made sure that the remnants of his team remained intact. It had already lost two of Czechoslovakia's championship swimmers and the chief of its women's contingent to the Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 23), who escaped while competing in events abroad. Last week, after the hockey team was welcomed back to Prague (see cut), the government canceled its date to play the Racing-Club de France. Reason: "too many of our finest sportsmen sent out to represent the national flag remain abroad...
...Bill Casey used his brake for the first time, and the sled ground to a stop, about a city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h. Afterwards, Benham's No. 3 man, Jim Atkinson, felt his face and grinned: "Boy, was that wind cold." Somebody remarked: "It's all over but the drinking." Said Driver Benham: "I haven't had a drink in a long time . . . you can't drink and drive...
...Michigan State, which recently made headlines by becoming the tenth member of the Big Nine, made some more by running off with the I.C.4-A. (for Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America) track championship at Madison Square Garden over runners-up Yale and 44 other colleges. Best individual performance of the meet: an American indoor-record heave of 60 ft. 7¾ in. by rawboned Jim Scholtz, a West Point first-classman, with the 35-lb. weight...
Died. P. (for Philip) Hal Sims, 62, hulking (6 ft. 4 in., 300 Ibs.) contract bridge expert; after a heart attack; in Havana. Sims took up the game in the '20s, after thrice winning the National Amateur three-cushion billiards championship, matched an uncanny card sense with a ruthless application of psychology and technical skill to become one of the world's outstanding players. A longtime rival of Culbertson, Sims was a born sportsman and amateur gambler (whist, golf, poker, tennis, horses), once played 59 straight hours of bridge...