Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matthews South defeated Hollis, two games to one last night to take the freshman volleyball championship, its second intramural title. Matthews also stopped-Hollis earlier this year to win the Yard basketball crown...
...Gulzar Mahal Palace, the Amir sat on a silver throne, fanned by two garishly uniformed attendants; a Negro jester clad in scarlet tunic stood at his elbow. The Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each...
...Detroit brain trust was ready to overlook an occasional early-season error in judgment from the youngster they hoped would take over Joe DiMaggio's American League center-field crown some day. This week, in an exhibition game, the Yankees' Joe and the Tigers' Johnny got together for the first time. DiMaggio, hobbling by on his sore heel, went to bat as a pinch hitter and drew a walk; Groth got a single in five times at bat, tossed out a Yankee at the plate with a good throw from center field. Did Groth look like...
Anyone who wants to take Fred Ravreby's University heavyweight crown away from him in the next three years is welcome to try. Scoring his second first round knockout in two weeks, Ravreby, a freshman, kayoed Dale Chadwick, last year's University heavyweight champion, in 1:10 of the first round to end the University Boxing Championship finals held in the Blockhouse yesterday afternoon...
Judges for the debate will be Ralph Lowell '12, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs of America and an Overseer of the University, George Minot, Managing Editor of the Boston Herald, and Charles Whitamore, Consul General in Boston for the British Crown...