Word: championship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Seaton Pippin, famed hackney mare owned by Paul Moore of Morristown, N.J., beat all hackney mares her own age and then all hackneys of any age for the hackney championship...
...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...
Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident that their match was unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably...
...Harmeson passed to a squat little fellow named Bill Woerner who, falling across Iowa's line, gave Purdue its first Big Ten championship in 33 years. Purdue 7, Iowa...
Encouraged by numerous screaming girls who had come up for house-party week. Williams neatly won the Little Three championship from Amherst, 19?...