Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aileron correctly, drew a smile by asking whether the pronouncer meant an "ape or an underground worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish you had won instead...
Yale heightened its chances of winning the Eastern Intercollegiate League baseball championship to the intense disappointment of 4500 Alumni at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, as Frank Quinn, fireballing ace, set the Crimson down 9 to 3, allowing six hits and fanning 10 men in the process...
Before Samborski's forces entertain any championship notions, however, they must first cope with a formidable Yale pitcher, Frank Quinn, who has yet to be defeated in league competition. Quinn, a right-hander, has won four Ivy League games, and possesses a blasing fast ball. His pitching rival today will be Jack Wallace, whose league record is four wins and a single defeat...
...year later young Mr. Rosenberg was a specialist-and making $50 a week after school. By determined practice, he had become a crack stenographer. About the time Billy won the Manhattan school speed championship, John R. Gregg, whose shorthand system Billy used, gave him a job as a demonstrator. Soon Rose could take 280 words a minute, real champ form. When he quit high school in his third year, he was making as much as $200 a week from his shorthand...
Last week, prematurely grey at 33, Willie Mosconi stepped nimbly about the curtain-enclosed arena in one corner of Bensinger's smoky pool parlor in Chicago. At stake: the world's pocket billiards (vulgarly pronounced pool) championship. His opponent and archenemy was Irving Crane, the champion, whose 33-year-old face was even sadder than Willie...