Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Billet Doux, 8-year-old pony gelding owned by Ben R. Meyer of Beverly Hills, jauntily won the single harness class for horses under 13.2 hands...
Golden Gleam, with Capt. Stuart Blake up, lost the Military Team Trophy for the Canadians by committing 20½ faults after the rest of the team had made a perfect score. The Polish team, with 2½ faults, won the cup while hundreds of Manhattan's Polish citizenry outyelled their disgruntled Italian and Canadian neighbors in the gallery...
...Bark, an aged black gelding, won the international individual championship for military jumpers. Tan Bark committed six and one-half faults but won because Lieut. Francesco Formigli and his Italian Army mount got messed up on a stone wall and the triple bars...
...startled onlookers by leaving his knight unprotected after an exchange of queens. Dr. Alekhine declined this Grecian gift. He only needed to draw to complete the 15½ points that would decide the championship and he got what he wanted with the rook and pawn ending. He had won 11 games, lost 5, drawn 9. Immediately Señor José Capablanca* mailed Dr. Alekhine a challenge for a match to be played in Manhattan or in Bradley Beach...
Members of Indiana's Anti-Shave Club, wearing beards till their team had won a game, saw a little back named George Ross score 14 points in the last ten minutes. Then the Club swarmed onto the field waving shaving mugs, brushes. Indiana 19, Northwestern...