Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...participators turned in a worse than average performance to gain 11th place in the team scoring Yale could muster only four and a half more for eighth place. Pitt and Columbia, the two favorites, battled it out to the last event, from the results of which Pitt became the champion by half a point...
...formula by concerning itself less with the ring prowess of its hero, Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) than with the grimy background of the fight industry as exemplified by his manager, Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks out the heavyweight champion of the world for insulting Nick's mistress, Fluff (Bette Davis), at a hotel orgy, Ward finds himself plunged into a melange of chicanery, gun feuds and undercover romance. Grooming Ward for the championship is for Nick subsidiary to his main purpose of revenging himself on the champion...
...golden spurs, symbol of knighthood, were carried one apiece by Lord Hastings and Lord Churston; and that the bearer of the Standard of England had no title at all but was plain Mr. Frank Seaman Dymoke of Scrivelsby Court, who has the hereditary right of being King's Champion. Mr. Dymoke's ancestors were supposed to ride in full armor into Westminster Hall, fling down a gantlet and challenge to mortal combat any who doubted the right to the throne of the newly crowned King...
...University of Southern California team in 1927. Runner Weierhauser's tape-breaking for the world's record was not his only major feat of the day. As anchor man in the mile relay, the last event of the day, he outran University of California's Olympic Champion Archie Williams to give Stanford the ten points it needed for top score in the meet, 64 to U. S. C.'s 54½, California...
...Federal Court in Newark, N. J. last week District Judge Guy Leverne Fake denied the Madison Square Garden Corp.'s plea for a temporary injunction to stop the scheduled heavyweight prize fight between Champion James Braddock and Challenger Joe Louis in Chicago on June 22. The court ruled that the Garden's contract with Braddock "places an unreasonable restraint upon his liberty." For the benefit of fight fans who want to keep up with the heavyweight legal tangle, the New York Times's versatile Sportswriter John Kieran submitted this brief at week...