Word: champion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three visitors were received at the White House with true California hospitality. Two came from Palo Alto (country seat of the Hoovers) with an introduction from D. C. Kok, a fellow-townsman. Their names were respectively Southboro Sunny and Southboro Markham, children of International Champion Southboro Savanna, English setter. The third visitor came without a card. His ancestry and antecedents were a mystery, but he was a handsome Eskimo sled...
Manhattan reporters went down to the imposing Cunard Building in lower Broadway last week to have a look at the elder and distinguished statesman brother of famed onetime Australian tennis champion Norman Brookes...
...Patriarch is out again, in 24 revised, amplified, revivified volumes. From "A to Anno" to "Vase to Zygo" a new, humanizing, journalistic touch is felt. To whom does a good journalist turn for the best account of the big prizefight? To the champion, of course. In choosing the author of the article on Boxing the U. S. advisors were doubtless less impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write...
...lower half of the draw was Francis T. Hunter against the field. This contained 37-year-old Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916 who in the round before the quarter-finals played what tennis players considered the most brilliant tennis of the tournament in beating young Arnold Jones. The finals, as had been expected, were played by Tilden and Hunter...
...Cyril Tolley, ponderous British ama teur champion, caused natives to gape by resting on a shooting-stick between trudges around the course...