Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the French Federation of Feminine Sports denied her application for an amateur racing license on the grounds she wore trousers and used language learned in the army camps of a martial grandfather, Madame Violette Morris of Paris, Olympic discus thrower and all-around athlete, sued the Federation for 100,000 francs. Because Nature had not shaped her conveniently for the accomplishment of her athletic ambitions, she last week horrified Paris by having a surgeon remove both her breasts. Said she: "Sport is all my life...
...Sportsman Pilot, a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of amateur flyers, took the air last week. On shiny paper cut slightly larger than this page, Editor Darwin J. Adams and Managing Editor Franklin Pinkham printed articles and pictures calculated to make as-yet-wingless readers look skyward. Publicist Fitzhugh Green tried to explain why Commander Byrd is in the Antarctic. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, discoursed on woman's status in aviation...
Montreal, March 10-By defearing Ralph Powers of Boston in the finals of the tournament. H. N. Rawlins '27, former Harvard champion and holder of numerous squash titles, today won the Canadian amateur squash racquets championship. The score of the match...
...ships are forever about Mr. Adams. At 62 he is greatest of U. S. amateur skippers. His eyes have wrinkles of sun and humor in their corners. His bald head and his face, with its Adams nose, beaked like a New England cliff, are tanned by salty weather. His hands are hard and veined; he wears no rings. His eyes are clear-water blue behind old-fashioned spectacles...
Arthur W. ("Ducky") Yates, a gigantic resident of Rochester, N. Y., used to heave weights at the Hill School and at Yale. Two years ago he won the amateur golf championship of New York. He has been looking for another title ever since. Last week in Havana, taking care not to play the nineteenth hole at the wrong time, he slashed, bashed and putted well; became amateur golf champion of Cuba...