Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kenny, Arthur S. Pier '35 and John P. Schen '35, were bunched together near the finish, but the Purple flash finally stepped ahead to clinch second place, with Pier and Schen following in that order...
True to expectations, a powerful Holy Cross nine swept its series with the Crimson here Saturday afternoon piling up a substantial lead in the fourth inning and adding to it to clinch a 6-1 victory. The result of this last game of the series and the Crusader's, over-whelming score in the first contest, 14-6, have made Harvard's chances for taking their next game with Dartmouth on Thursday, June 15, exceedingly small unless the lay-off works wonders or Coach Mitchell can insure tight playing in the infield...
...free to pound his opponent's ribs with looping, hammer-like blows. Watson's ribs appeared to be steel-plated. Methodical and earnest, he waited for Chocolate to tire, held his own till the tenth round. Then, overestimating Chocolate's fatigue, he backed away from a clinch with his hands down. Chocolate saw his chance and took it with a left swing at Watson's jaw that sent him rolling into a corner of the ring, left him groggy for the rest of the round...
When Patrick met Countess Marie at his father's place in Ireland they were much taken with each other, became engaged under her mother's unsuspecting nose. When she went back to Kossovia, Patrick followed to clinch matters. Arrived in Novograd, he found Marie's return had been delayed; meantime he discovered old schoolmates there and began to enjoy Kossovian society. Beautiful Eurydice had begun to attract him even before his airplane crash; afterwards, he had no eyes for anyone else and could not remember ever having seen Marie before. But Eurydice, having more political fish...
...hand was the biggest crowd in U. S. cycling history, mostly to cheer for red-headed Torchy Peden, just back from Europe, and his French-Canadian partner, Jules Audy. They weakened at the finish. Grinning and reckless, red-shirted Debaets won seven of the last ten sprints to clinch first prize...