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...finishing well and securing team victory for the Crimson on its home waters.In the C division, senior skipper Jon Garrity split time with Brants and junior crew Winston Yan to finish fourth in that division’s seventeen races. They won three races on the weekend and were runners-up in two other contests.“Any time you are able to put up three solid finishes in all of the divisions, you are going to do well,” Palmer said.DUPLIN TROPHY WOMEN’S TEAM RACEThe Crimson women’s squad placed...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sailing Performs Strongly | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...mailed, and networked their way to an entry pool of roughly 30 contestants. The music blared, the pieces clacked, and the victors rose as the double-elimination tournament rolled on through the night. Sticky notes for a $10 tab at the Grille went to the first and second runners-up and a $20 Finale gift certificate went to the champion. Though the stakes were high, the victims of the seven-column-by-six-row vertical playing field remained composed in the face of defeat. “I’m not a very good game player?...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Go ‘Four’ Chance To Win | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...Whitestone, the first deaf Miss America. But in the months leading to that night, the pageant has been slapped with unseemly controversy. A Miss Maryland runner-up charges she was denied her state title because of vote rigging--and attorney Alan Dershowitz is helping press her case. Other state runners-up are vexed because a woman who had lost the Miss New Jersey competition four times decamped to Delaware and won the title there. The Virginia delegate was stripped of her title after claims that she inflated her credentials. And throughout America the anguished debate roils on: Should the swimsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISS AMERICA: DREAM GIRLS | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...racquet women returned to Harvard not as runners-up, but as the third place finishers, behind Yale. Although Harvard (4-1) did not even meet Yale (they will do so next week in regular season action). Howe Cup rules dictate that second spot go to the team with the second best team score. Both Harvard and Yale, however, completed the tournament 5-1. In that situation the runner-up is that team that takes the most individual matches during the tournament...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Princeton Dethrones Harvard in Howe; Tigers Win 5-2 to Take National Title | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...fourth round Sam applied the crusher: a blazing 66 against 1953's Amateur Champion Gene Littler, Ted Kroll and Ed Oliver. The crusher gave Snead an insurmountable lead: 52 points to 18 for Runners-Up Gary Middlecoff, defending champion, and Jack Burke. On the final round, instead of relaxing, Snead shot a 65, lowest round of the tournament, and won by the biggest margin in the 16-year history of the Round Robin, beating Runner-Up Toski by 36 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweet Swinging | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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