Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detroit, Mich, June 6.--R. T. Jones '24, defending his title as national open golf champion here today succumbed to the jinx that has consistently kept champions from repeating. Jones was runner-up to Cyril Walker, professional of the Englewood (N. J.) Golf Club...
...hockey team plays its first game of the triangular series in Princeton. This will be the University's third appearance in the new Baker Memorial Rink, and having won one and lost one of the two previous engagements, the team has no reason to suspect the presence of a jinx in that arena...
...Princeton team, however, is quite strong enough to force the University to its utmost, without the assistance of any benevolent jinx. In spite of the unfortunate injury of Captain Stout, which incapacitates him for the rest of the season, the reorganized Tigers gave the powerful Yale sextette a hard battle last Saturday, and may be relied upon to perform tonight in the same fashion...
...Englishmen were told that there is a jinx lurking somewhere about Deal they would not exactly understand. What is this jinx? Simply an American colloquial alibi for consistent failure to win the title for over 20 years...