When the troupe traveled to New York to participate in a one-act-play competition -- and won -- Mercer, instead of returning with the rest of the company in triumph, remained in New York.

The party that won used to say something about a New Frontier.

-- The powerful New York Yankees won their 19th world series in a 5-game romp over outclassed Cincinnati, crushing the Reds in a humiliating 13-5 barrage Monday in the loosely played finale.

It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.

Douglas won Missouri, and split New Jersey with Lincoln.

There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.

On November 8, they won 41 – 10 over the New England Patriots, ending a streak of 22 losses at cold-weather sites.

During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

It won the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical.

New York City Opera's production in August 1990 and July 1991 ( total of 18 performances ) won the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and was telecast on the PBS show " Live at Lincoln Center " on November 7, 1990.

The editor and co-publisher of The Riverdale Press, Bernard Stein, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for his editorials about Bronx and New York City issues in 1998.

In its 12-year history as an amateur league, the Brooklyn Atlantics won seven championships, establishing themselves as the first true dynasty in the sport, although, the New York Mutuals were widely considered to be one of the best teams of the era as well.

Members of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers have won the most awards of any franchise ( with 16 ), twice the total of the New York Yankees ( eight ), who have produced the most in the American League.

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

The Lions won all their games in Australia except for their final fixture against a New South Wales XV in Newcastle.

The Lions would only lose a single match on the rest of the tour, and won the test series against New Zealand, winning and drawing the last two games, to take the series two wins to one.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry.

Cleveland then won a playoff game 8-3 against the New York Giants on December 17 behind a pair of Groza field goals, turning the tables on a team that handed the Browns both of their regular-season losses.

However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

It won the documentary of the year award from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.

Initially he trained for a career in music and became so proficient on the tuba that he won a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy.

Finland, 2005: won the 2005 New York Short Film Festival Jury Award for Best Screenplay.

Cleveland's blunt, honest ways won him popular acclaim, but they also gained him the enmity of certain factions of his own party, especially the Tammany Hall organization in New York City.

The Democrats spread the word of this insult in the days before the election, and Cleveland narrowly won all four of the swing states, including New York by just over one thousand votes.

After the Los Angeles Kings won the 2012 Stanley Cup, David Krasne, a Kings fan in New York City, placed a Stanley Cup champions hat on Mark Bavis and Bailey's names at the Memorial.

The next year, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as New York City Detective Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in The French Connection, marking his graduation to leading man status.

Cuomo won the November 2010 gubernatorial election and was sworn in as the 56th governor of the state of New York on January 1, 2011.

For this purpose he visited the Diet of Nuremberg in 1522, where he made the acquaintance of the Reformer Andreas Osiander, by whose influence Albert was won over to Protestantism.

On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.

He won his first Lenaean victory in the 350s BC, most likely, where he was sixth after Eubulus, and fourth after Antiphanes.

He won his greatest military successes in the middle Ebro, where he conquered Zaragoza in 1118 and took Ejea, Tudela, Calatayud, Borja, Tarazona, Daroca, and Monreal del Campo.

In 1802, at the age of 26, he won a place to study theology at St. John's College, Cambridge where he changed his name, Brunty, to the more distinguished sounding Brontë.

Housman was educated first at King Edward's School, Birmingham, then Bromsgrove School, where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry.

In 1877, he won an open scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics.

Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though because he had switched programs and had left early for Yale University, he did not receive a degree there.

Greetings was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won a Silver Bear award.

A member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d ' Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966, he played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts and passing abilities from midfield and his ferocious long-range shot.

Bowls is played at the Commonwealth Games ; the last being held in Delhi, India, where Natalie Melmore ( England ) and Robert Weale ( Wales ) won the singles Gold Medals.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

So you produce a lemon of a car and you won ’ t know where to hide because your customers are going to tell each other about it and then the rest of the world about it.

After a lengthy battle with his syndicator, Watterson won the privilege of making half page-sized Sunday strips where he could arrange the panels any way he liked.

The next season, he would be dealt to the Boston Red Sox where he won 20 games in 1978 and another 17 in 1979.

The Chicago club was founded in 1870 as the White Stockings and played a season in the National Association of Base Ball Players, where they won a championship, and five seasons in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

Due to the wartime travel restrictions, the first three games of the 1945 World Series were played in Detroit, where the Cubs won two games, including a one-hitter by Claude Passeau, and the final four were played at Wrigley.

It was shown in competition at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work.

Sans Soleil was shown at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival where it won the OCIC Award.

During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

He then relocated to Rome, where in 1771 he won second prize in a painting competition organized by the City of Parma.

* 2006 Texas Governor Election ( a real-life example where incumbent Rick Perry won re-election despite gaining less than 40 percent of the vote )

This was the first time a candidate had won following the first ballot ( where a majority of over two thirds is necessary ).

Limouzin, who was a proficient golfer, knew of the school and its headmaster through the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club, where he won several competitions in 1903 and 1904.