Word: champion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champion Smith had found on the St. Cloud course, just outside of Paris, what golfers call their "element." The Smith golf is highly stylized, has mostly been played on the hard, fast fairways of Missouri and California. Golfer Smith's two feet and the head of his club, when it touches the ground, nearly always form that invisible equilateral triangle so exuberantly eulogized in golf textbooks. During the recent European venture of U. S. professional golfers, he has been the direct antithesis of erratic unorthodox Leo Harley Diegel. On the careless hillocks and ridges of Muirfield and Moortown where...
...shade. Even in his training camp he likes to change his clothes several times a day. He has never lost a fight, nor learned to speak English. He fought at 121 lb. last week. Had he weighed three pounds less he might have been declared bantamweight champion of the world, a title at present unassigned. As it is, he is about three fights away from the featherweight title...
...mosquito was Fidel La Barba, one time flyweight (112 lb. or under) champion of the world. A student at Stanford, he wants to go into real estate business. Among books he has read and liked are the Outline of History by H. G. Wells, Round Up by Ring Lardner. Among maga-zines he likes and reads is Variety...
...newcomer to the ranks of the heavy crews, T. N. Perkins, Jr. '31, who set the beat for the champion American Henley lightweight eight at Philadelphia last Saturday, was pulling the stroke oar in the class eight yesterday but it is not known whether he will be given a chance with the University crews. R. L. Pearson '31, stroke of the class crew which raced on the Schuylkill on Saturday, was also in the stroke seat of the class crew shell during yesterday's practice...
...Oregon '31, and state amateur champion was the originator of the plan to promote intercollegiate golf through the interest aroused by such an experiment as playing a golf match by telegraph. His idea is for Harvard to chose a course which corresponds as nearly as possible to the features of the Eugene. Oregon, Country Club. The Eugene Course measures 6425 yards long, is par 72, has very few bunkers, and has its second nine laid out through trees. By chance the Belmont Springs Course, where the Harvard team plays regularly is greatly similar to this, with the exception that...