Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Arthur Devlin, 68, fast, scrappy shortstop and third baseman for John McGraw's rowdy championship New York Giants in the 1900s; of a heart ailment; in Jersey City...
...these reasons, after due and weighty consideration, this publication would like to go on record as endorsing the Boston Braves in their candidacy for the National League Pennant, and eventually the Baseball Championship of the World. Oh frabjous...
...Amateur golf championship is almost anybody's tournament: not since Lawson Little (who won in 1934 and 1935) has a golfer taken the title two years in a row. At the Memphis Country Club last week, five former titleholders were among the 210 golfers seeking the crown of California's Defending Champion Robert H. ("Skee") Riegel...
...crowd-pullers were ex-champions. The biggest gallery followed cocky Frank Stranahan, 26, the muscular millionaire Ohio playboy who won the British Amateur championship this year. And Spectator Bobby Jones, the onetime nonpareil (he won the U.S. Amateur title five times), had put his money on a neglected entry. Jones thought that this looked like the year for Ray Billows, 34, a Poughkeepsie salesman who had reached the finals twice before-and lost both times...
...over the world knew the name of Eugene Higgins. After attending Columbia University, where he was a classmate of Nicholas Murray Butler, he became a full-time playboy, with a $50 million carpet fortune to spend. Almost everything he did made news-his winning of the U.S. fencing championship in 1890; the time his 1,520-ton steam yacht was wrecked in the Madeira Islands (he won a medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor...