Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cornell's victory did not obscure, however, the most spectacular race of the day, in which Dennis F. O'Connell '21 making the best time he had ever done in the mile, passed Crawford of Lafayette, who had been picked to win, on the last stretch and broke the tape two feet ahead of his opponent. O'Connell at the start ran in fourth place but at the half-way mark passed McDermott of Cornell and Bartels of Johns Hopkins into second place; and except for a premature spurt by O'Brien of Yale on the last...
...Mark's School defeated the University golf team 10 to 3 yesterday afternoon at Southboro: H. S. Lake '20 being the only University player to win his match, beating W. Barber, 2-0. In their first match of the season, the Freshman golf team won from Brookline High...
...displayed great batting ability and has developed some fast fielders in Captain G. S. Baldwin '21, at short-stop and R. B. Shaw '21 at third. The nine's first game resulted in a 4 to 3 victory over Middlesex, and the second in a 10 to 7 win from Andover, both of whom were undefeated up to the time of their meeting with the second string players...
...seems to me that of the first actions of the St. Louis convention are particularly significant. The delegates voted down the 'Grab Bill' to give every discharged soldier six months additional pay. This bill had been proposed in Congress as a political measure in order to win votes from the many discharged soldiers for its backers. It was entirely unnecessary, as the $60 bonus law gave all the aid that was needed to get a discharged soldier back on the job. By repudiating this bill, the Legion showed that it intended to keep to its newly adopted tenet of steering...
...mile event D. F. O'Connell '21 is the logical winner with K. Chase '19 also placing in the event. J. D. Hutchinson '19 is favored to win the two mile race. C. G. Krogness '21 and F. C. Church '20 should both score in the hurdles although the Eli's have both Heffelfinger and Shedden who are likely to give the University hurdlers strong competition...