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The Walker cup is an international golf tournament played in alternate years between teams of amateur men from the USA and Great Britain and Ireland.
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The Wallabies is the nickname of the Australian Rugby Union team.
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The Washington Redskins are an American professional football team. They joined the NFL in 1932 as the Boston Redskins, but moved to Washington in 1937.
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The Washington Senators are an American professional baseball team. They were a founding member of the American League in 1901.
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Water Polo is a ball game played in water. It is a variation of Association Football but played in a swimming pool with teams of seven players. A match consists of four quarters of five minutes each, with teams changing ends each quarter.
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A wazari is a 'almost a point' scored in judo.
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The Wellington Cup is a horse-race run over 3200 meters on the Trentham track, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Welsh Baseball is an 11-a-side team game played with a wooden bat and a hard ball, mainly in South Wales and parts of north-west England. It differs in several respects, and notably in the matter of equipment, from the more widely-known form of baseball played in the USA. The clothing worn by the players is much simpler and catching gloves and other protective gear is not used. The bat is made of willow and has a flat striking edge which tapers evenly into the handle.
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The Wembley Lions are an English ice hockey club that was formed in 1934.
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West Ham United FC is an English Association Football club of London. It was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks and reformed under its present name in 1900. West Ham United FC play at Upton Park.
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Whist, originally called Whisk, is an old card game known to have been played in the early 17th century, played by four person forming two pairs. Whist is played with a standard 52-card deck, the entire deck being dealt out, the last card being turned over and defining the trumps. The dealer then picks up and adds this card to his own hand. Play follows the usual order, the player at the dealer's left playing first, with each player following suit if they can, and endeavouring to win tricks by playing the highest card or trump, the winner of each trick leading the next round of play.
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The Wightman Cup is an annual lawn tennis contest between women players of the USA and Britain. It was inaugurated in 1923.
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Winchester College Football is a 15-a-side and 6-a-side variation of football played only at Winchester College. It is played with a round ball on a pitch 80 yards long by 27 yards wide bounded on the two long sides by netting 8 feet high, with a yard inside the netting a rope 3 feet high running parallel to the netting. At each short end of the pitch is a shallowly trenched goal line.
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Winchester Fives is a game played between four players, two on each side, in a court enclosed by four walls. The players use both hands (protected by gloves).
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian professional football team. They were the first Western Conference team to win the Grey Cup in 1935.
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The Wisden Trophy was created by John Wisden and Company Ltd in 1963 to commemorate the 100th edition of Wisden's Cricketers' Almanac. The trophy is competed for between the West Indies and England, although the actual trophy is permanently housed at Lord's.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are an Association Football club founded in 1877 by young men associated with St Luke's Church School in Blakenhall. The club played under the name of St Luke's Church School until 1880 when they merged with Wanderers, another local club and assumed their current name.
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The Wolverines is the nickname of the University of Michigan college football team.
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Wrestling is a form of combat contest between two opponents in which the object is to grapple the opponent to the floor.
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