Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd of 40,421 up on tiptoe. But 20 yards from the finish, Atkinson "turned his stick" and relaxed; Capot nailed the $60,900 prize by half a length. Added to his victory in the Preakness, the Belmont copper-riveted his claim to 1949's three-year-old championship...
Well Taught. The difference was Princeton-Cornell's battery of two head coaches and two assistant coaches, including Cornell's venerable (85) Jack Moakley. His well-tutored pupils won six events. In his 50 years as track coach at Cornell, Jack Moakley had developed more championship track squads than he could remember. But he won even more renown as a competitor who put as much emphasis on sportsmanship as on winning. In 1920, when he went to Antwerp as coach of the U.S. Olympic team, Jack Moakley had time for all foreign athletes who sought his advice...
...course, is with Yale at New Haven on Monday. This one will decide the league championship--for Harvard can tie with Princeton for the title if they down the Elis then. The second game here on Wednesday doesn't count in the standings...
...ripe age for big-league golf, Samuel Jackson Snead was burning up the courses like a Virginia grass fire. He shot hard and accurate golf to win the Masters Tournament in April, and he was red-hot last week as he stroked his way to the P.G.A. championship at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week...
Golf--Players who take part in 25% of the matches get minor H's. Men who reach the finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament or win the Eastern College Championship, or are members of the winning Eastern team receive major H's. Double credit for Yale...