Word: champ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powerful Primo Camera, year-long heavyweight champ in the early '30s, was having trouble with his hands. In Knoxville, Tenn., he shook a sports promoter's hand, broke it-the promoter's-in two places. In Miami, Mrs. Rosalie B. Marano sued him for $25,000, charged that he had pawed her in an auto last February and she still hurt...
...Baer, ex-heavyweight-champ-turned-comedian, visited Indianapolis in his camel's hair coat, dropped in on an old sparring-partner-turned-evangelist, was shortly lifting his voice to lead 5,000 people at Cadle Tabernacle through Rock of Ages and There Is No Night There. Explained Max: "There's a little bit of good...
From that hardy band, Fred Mulcahy, last year's New England intercollegiate champ, and Oakes Ames have graduated, leaving behind Bill Rickenbacker, Walt Butler, Larry Gray, and Paul Coste. All of these veteran clubbers, with the possible exception of Coste, last year's appointed captain, are definitely looking forward to pitching and putting when the team starts taking its practice shots immediately after the Easter vacation...
Barclay comes to his present task of pulling some 25 hopeful linksmen down to somewhere near par golf from Michigan, where he was state amateur champ before the war, and coached for five years...
...dual meet record behind them, will certainly not enter the championships the favorite. With only four men who are capable of getting anywhere against the class of competition which will appear at New Haven, Chief Boston's men will do well to grab a couple of places. Defending champ Navy and powerhouses from Syracuse, Lehigh and Penn apparently will decide matters...