Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...default. Last week, when Schmeling went from Speculator to Manhattan to weigh in at the Athletic Commission offices for the phantom fight, his hopes were disappointed. Instead of awarding the title to Schmeling, the Commission merely voted to fine Braddock and his manager $1,000 each, suspend the champion for an indefinite period. In such a rage that a scheduled radio talk in which he was to tell the public his side of the story had to be canceled as too violent, Pugilist Schmeling promptly sailed back to Germany. Boxing critics predicted the outcome: a bout between Schmeling...
...Junior Chamber of Commerce this spring decided on a "national aquatic show." To publicize the aquatic show, Los Angeles Photographer Eyere Powell last week made striking photographs of Swimmer Katherine Rawls diving through the bull's-eye of a large canvas target and U. S. High-diving champion Ruth Jump flying through the air holding a bow & arrow in a "Diana Dive...
...Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Polish girl tennist: the St. George's Hill Championship; 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the final against U. S. Champion Alice Marble, for whom it was the third consecutive defeat in minor English tournaments the past month; at Weybridge, England...
Elected captain of Princeton University's golf team was Fumitaka Konoye, 22, class of 1938, son of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Short, stocky, usually laughing, Son Konoye is golf champion of Princeton, speaks perfect English (including slang). Next to golf his best sports are boxing and riding. He is majoring in politics, also likes Spanish, music, psychology. Proposed career: Diplomacy. His room in Pyne Hall, where he lives with Stuart Aitkin of Bala, Pa., is plastered with cartoons from Esquire...
...Dartmouth, Harry Jr. roomed off-campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...