Frank Duryea won the race in 10 hours and 23 minutes, beating the other five entrants.

England lost only four Ashes Tests in the 1880s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested.

ASU has won 23 national collegiate team championships in the following sports: baseball ( 5 ), men's golf ( 2 ), women's golf ( 7 ), men's gymnastics ( 1 ), softball ( 2 ), men's indoor track ( 1 ), women's indoor track ( 2 ), men's outdoor track ( 1 ), women's outdoor track ( 1 ), and wrestling ( 1 ).

The PUSC also obtained 27 seats in the 57-member Legislative Assembly, for a plurality, while the PLN got 23 and five minor parties won seven.

The following season, 1910, he won his 500th career game on July 23 against Washington.

On February 23, 2011, former Illinois Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, won the municipal election to become mayor of Chicago, heavily beating five rivals with 55 percent of the vote.

| West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge on 23 September 1905 ; Chelsea won 1 – 0.

In 1988 they won their first division title in 23 years ( since 1964 – 65, when they finished first in a one-division league ).

Rome won the First Punic War after 23 years of conflict and in the end became the dominant naval power of the Mediterranean.

The Astros won the National League Division Series against the Atlanta Braves, 3-1, with a game four that set postseason records for most innings ( 18 ), most players used by a single team ( 23 ), and longest game time ( 5 hours and 50 minutes ).

The two then met in the wild-card round where the Dolphins won 23 – 17 before being blown out by Oakland 27 – 0 ( the Colts themselves had suffered a bitter loss to the Raiders in Week Two of the season when the Raiders erased a 24-7 gap to win 38-31 ).

The signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939 not only won Germany an informal alliance with the Soviet Union, but also neutralized Anglo-French attempts to win Turkey to the “ peace front ”.

Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

On New Year's Day the attendance was 23, 000, and Australia won the match by nine wickets in three days.

After a string of mediocre seasons, a rejuvenated Johnson rebounded in 1924 to win 23 games with the help of his catcher, Muddy Ruel, as the Senators won the American League pennant for the first time in the history of the franchise.

In, the Vikings again won the Central Division with a 9 – 5 record and advanced to their 4th NFC Championship Game in 5 years, but were defeated by the eventual Super Bowl Champion Cowboys, 23 – 6, at Texas Stadium.

Combined with stellar hitting of Ryan Braun, Aramis Ramirez, Corey Hart, and Jonathan Lucroy, the Brewers, from August 16 to September 23, won 26 of 35 games, and as of September 24, only 2 1 / 2 games out of the second Wild Card spot, with a 79-73 record.

The September 25, 2006 home opener, the first home game in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, was won by the Saints 23 – 3 against the Atlanta Falcons, who were undefeated in the 2006 season at that time.

In 2008, the Giants won the NFC East with a record of 12 – 4 ( and also were the number one seed in the NFC after beating the Carolina Panthers for home field advantage ), but lost 23 – 11 to the Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round of the playoffs.

The New Progressive Party ( PNP ) was founded in August, 1967 by Luis A. Ferré, a month after the July 23, 1967 local plebiscite and the year before the PNP won the 1968 elections.

In 1986, UP candidates won 350 local council seats, 23 deputy positions in departmental assemblies, 9 seats in the House, and 6 seats in the Senate.

Australia won the series 2 – 1, and although Benaud was below his best, scoring at 21. 77 and taking 23 wickets at 33. 87, the series was a success for cricket.

England hold the record for the number of Triple Crowns won with 23, followed by Wales with 20 and Scotland and Ireland with 10.

In elections held May 23, 1997, the St. Lucia Labour Party won all but one of the 17 seats in Parliament, and Dr. Kenny Anthony became Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Planning and Development on 24 May 1997.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

Brampton was able to win 1 game to force a 5th but that was as far as they would get as the Majors won the series in five.

* Walter Hagen ( 1892 – 1969 ), " Golf's Greatest Showman ", World Golf Hall-of-Famer, won 11 Majors.

Because none of the Majors were played on hardcourts in Laver's era ( both the US Open and Australian Opens were played on grass ), Laver never won a Grand Slam tournament on hardcourt ; this is quite different from the modern landscape, where half of the year's Majors are played on hardcourts.

Only five golfers have won all four of golf's modern Majors at any time during their career, an achievement which is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.

Woods and Nicklaus not only have a Career Grand Slam, they have won each of the four Majors three times.

The school's flagship hockey team, the St. Michael's Majors, have won the Memorial Cup four times.

On May 15, 2011, the Attack won their first J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL Champions, also since relocating from Guelph with a 3-2 overtime win over the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors in the seventh game of the OHL finals.

He bought the London Majors and, as player / owner, won the Intercounty League title in 1956 and the Great Lakes championship in 1957 before returning to the Intercounty League in 1958 and selling the team in 1959.

Shortly after World War II Labatt Park was the home of the London Majors, which won the Canadian Sandlot Congress in 1947 and the Can-Am Baseball Congress championship in 1948, beating the Fort Wayne, Indiana, General Electrics in a best-of-seven-game series at Labatt Park, as well as winning the Canadian, Ontario and Intercounty titles.

The UWO Mustangs Baseball Club managed by former London Majors / AA London Tigers / AAA Toldedo Mud Hens pitcher Mike Lumley is using the park during the 2006 Ontario University Athletics ( OUA ) baseball season ( in 2005, the Mustangs won the OUA baseball title at Labatt Park for the first time, beating Brock University ) Badgers in the final best-of-three championship series.

The day featured an open, drop-in baseball clinic with the London Majors, historical displays in the Roy McKay Clubhouse, a 1923 Wurlitzer Military Band Organ ( restored and owned and operated by Ken Vinen of Aylmer, Ontario ), a vintage base ball game between Fanshawe Pioneer Village's London Tecumsehs and Bruce Huff's Thames River Ratz ( the Ratz won 15-3 ), a pitch, hit and run competition and a doubleheader between the London Majors and the Toronto Maple Leafs of the Intercounty Baseball League ( London won both games, 9-1 and 3-2 ).

Tilden was the World No. 1 player for seven years, he won 15 Majors including ten Grand Slams, the 1921 World Hard Court Championships and four Pro Slams

The Majors won each of the next three games by scores of 6 to 3, 4 to 3, and 7 to 2 in the deciding game.

The Majors won the second game 4 to 1, with Cheevers coming within 6 minutes and 35 seconds of two consecutive shutouts.

Barrie won the right to play for the Cup by defeating the St. Michael's Majors for the OHA championship.

He twice led the Majors in outfield assists, and also led all American League left fielders in putouts in 2000 ( 305 ) and 2001 ( 321 ), although he never won a Gold Glove for his fielding.

He returned to the St. Michael's Majors for a single game in the 1944 – 45 campaign, choosing to enlist in the military instead as St. Michael's won the 1945 Memorial Cup championship that spring.

In 1948 London Majors, considered one of the best teams in Intercounty history, not only won the Intercounty League championship, but the Ontario Baseball Association championship, the Canadian amateur men's championship, and the Can-Am North American championship of the National Baseball Congress beating the Fort Wayne, Indiana, General Electrics in a best-of-seven-game series played at Labatt Park, with such London stars as pitcher " Tireless " Tommy White, catcher Jack Fairs, short-stop / fielder Russell ( the Muscle ) Evon, catcher Gil Robertson, infielder Don Cooper and rookie outfielder Joltin ' Joe Bechard ( the three remaining members of the ' 48 Majors still alive are Jack Fairs, Gil Robertson, Joe Bechard and trainer Norm Aldridge — see photo below ).

The Majors won the opener on September 21, 1948, at Labatt Park when Joe Bechard's single in the 11th inning scored Johnny Lockington from second with the winning run in an 8-7 victory.