Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feature match of the afternoon was that between Miami's Gardner Malloy, intercollegiate tennis champion, and Dorson, intercollegiate squash champion. In winning a set, the latter accomplished what few college players have been able...
...last week, DeMar was 14th. Peter Foley was nowhere to be seen. He had started an hour ahead of the rest of the field, stopped after the first ten miles. Winner, when the favorite, John Kelley, weakened two miles from the finish, was a 24-year-old Quebec snowshoe champion named Walter Young, whose prizes were a laurel wreath, a silver cup, a medal...
What he had been describing was a fight between onetime World Heavyweight Champion Max Adelbert Baer and a stolid 23-year-old Welshman named Tommy Farr. For winning decisively, becoming the first British heavyweight to attract international attention since Phil Scott (retired 1931), Farr got a purse of $15,000, offers of fights with Walter Neusel, Bob Pastor, John Henry Lewis, Max Schmeling...
...Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race in Tuckerman's Ravine at Mt. Washington. The sum of the times of the first 15 men on each team gave the Crimson a slim margin of 6.7 seconds, 739.2 seconds to Dartmouth's 745.9. First place was taken by Dick Dorrance of Dartmouth, slalom champion of the United States, in the time of 40.1 seconds...
Died. Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton, 77, British pianist & composer, self-styled "champion letter-writer to the British press" (2,000 published since 1900); in London. Other recreations: "Looking at ancient and memorable buildings, ... examining and criticizing modern edifices, . . . listening to the debates in the House of Commons, . . . billiards, draughts, chess and cards...