Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the policemen demanded a recount, General Otero was unmoved. He denied the whole incident and saw to it that his daughter was crowned. "Mexicans," he explained, "do not know how to lose." But General Otero knew how a winner should act. To appease his daughter's competitors-all princesses of the festivals-he invited them to a gala luncheon. As Moy and her princesses plunged into a week of parties, even the traffic police forgot about the squabble...
...trouble started last year when the 1947 IC4-A javelin winner hurt his arm in the Dartmouth meet. That kept him out of the Yale, Hops, and IC4-A meets, and according to track coach Mikkola, prevented him from landing a berth on the U.S. Olympic team. Trimble threw 212 feet as a Freshman two years...
Their first meet is against North Carolina on Tuesday. The men from Chapel Hill shut out Harvard last year, 27 to 0, and still claim as their number one man Harrie Ward, winner of the North-South open tournament...
...championships will be decided next week--the Bermuda Trophy, which goes either to a Bermuda team or an American college team, and the Big Three crown. Harvard meets the Bermuda Athletic Association on Tuesday and Yale on Thursday. The winner of this game plays Princeton, defending Big Three champs, a week from Saturday. A contest between the Bermuda All Stars and the Big Three All Stars a week from Sunday closes the program, and the team will fly home that night...
Yesterday's contest was the third event in the three day meet. The foil matches were Monday and the saber matches were Tuesday. Each day's contest had 14 separate elimination matches, the winner of each gaining one point for his House...