Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most peoples are gradually being debilitated and unmanned by factory produced comforts. Not so the sons of Tipperary. In Belfast last week, Pat Fitzgerald of Coolcrow, County Tipperary, beat 230 other runners to the all-Irish cross-country championship, but his speed (40 min. 31 sec. for six miles) was not the real news. Fitzgerald, like the other contestants from his county, ran the whole race barefoot, through two-foot-deep snow. Said a (doubtless biased) Belfast observer: "Aye, it's not unusual to see runners going barefoot in Tipperary, although the other folks there wear shoes when...
Piece do resistance of the meet, the N.E.A.A.A.H. championship 35 pound weight throw, will match the Varsity's triumvirate Jack Fisher, Felton, and Zeigler against Bob Bennet of Brown, who throw 55 feet (slightly under the world's record) before the war. Medals will be awarded in this event, while for the pole vault, shot put, high jump, and broad jump glass trays will be the prizes. Today's competition is the last for the Crimson prior to next Saturday's trip to Yale's Coxo Cage for what is generally considered the first, last, and only meet...
...following is a complete list of the Varsity's entries in tomorrows carnival: 35-pound weight throw: (N.E.A.A.A.U. championship event) J. Fisher. S. Felton, P. Ziegler; Pole Vault; P. Harwood. O. C. Torrey, W. Lawrence; High Jump: J. Harrigan, P. Garland; Broad Jump: H. Thayer, R. Holbrook, R. E. Schneider; Shot Put: P. Garland, W. Jackson, A. Wheeler...
...pennant race. A Green victory over the Crimson by a decisive margin in their first clash this year would show the Hanoverians superior to all opposition even though the schedule has barely reached mid-season, and should insure them of any easy coast thereafter to the League championship...
...last week's game, Bill made 15 points. His No. 1 helper is Negro Elmo Jackson (ten points), a lightning-fast forward. Both Wanish and Jackson were regulars on Allentown's tricky T-formation football team, also coached by Crum, which has also won the Pennsylvania state championship for the past two years...