Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard varsity tennis team, hoping to finally prove its full-strength potential, played its best match of the year last Saturday but failed to overcome the Tigers, who pulled out a 5-4 victory to complete an undefeated season and take sole possession of the EITA crown...
...quite. Now, like any Derby winner, Cannonade has a shot at racing's Triple Crown, and Stephens would surely like to claim the big prize. The next step is Saturday's Preakness at Pimlico. "I wish the race were the day after tomorrow," announced Stephens after examining Cannonade. "He has recovered from the Derby incredibly fast...
...spectrum of racing trainers, Stephens falls somewhere between the late Max Hirsch of King Ranch, a taskmaster who might run nine horses into the ground to produce one Triple Crown champion like Assault, and Rokeby Stable's Elliott Burch, whose patience with a thoroughbred is almost limitless. Possessing what Gaines calls "the intuitive knowledge of a great horseman," Stephens tailors training routines to fit each of his horses. With Cannonade, for instance, he has concentrated on long gallops, while scheduling generous periods of rest to keep the horse fresh...
With St. Pierre at the plate, Hogan pilfered his seventh EIBL base of the year, giving him the league crown in that department. St. Pierre then drove a double to left field, driving in Hogan with what seemed to be nothing more than an insurance...
...Mainstage, by way of contrast, maybe, the Royal Shakespeare Festival (including Sir Michael Redgrave) is doing two scrapbook plays. The Hollow Crown (Saturday at 2 is the only performance not yet sold out) is a scrapbook of English dynastic history, and Pleasure and Repentance (today at 2 isn't sold out) is a scrapbook of lighthearted looks at love, and The Globe liked them both, in a moderately convincing...