Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young sophomore from Ithaca was fourth. But Cornell improved rapidly, and when they met in the Heptagonal games, Woodland barely beat him out; and he was not to be held off for long, for at Franklin Field two weeks later the Big Red ace was crowned IC4A champion, beatting off the Eli captain-elect in a furious finish. The rivalry between the two will be continued tomorrow night, and though most of the deposters are picking Cornell for first, Woodland for second and Bassett for third, thus judiciously splitting the points, some one could make a far worse bet than...
From Glencoe, Illinois, comes Jim Light body, Jr., a middle distance man whose father was an Olympic champion of 1906. In the Andover meet on February 6 Light body broke the 600-yard run records of both Andover and Harvard, running the distance in the exceptionally good time of 1 min., 17 3-5 sec. In the same afternoon Light body also won he 300. Sports writers predict a future for Freshman Light body more brilliant even than that of his famous father...
Coming behind with two games against him, German S. Glidden '36, National Squash Rackets Champion, defeated Neil J. Sullivan, National in 1934, in close fought games, 14-15, 14-15, 15-10, 15-14, 15-11, to retain his title at Cleveland...
...Picasso abstraction is to a billboard, figure skating is to what most people do when they exercise on ice. Half sport, half art, it requires a course of training feasible only because figure skaters begin their vocation soon after leaving the cradle. When Robin Huntingdon Lee became U. S. champion at the age of 15, in 1935, he was no prodigy but a veteran of eight years' arduous training. Last week Robin Lee, Maribel Vinson, Erie Reiter and the rest of the small company of U. S. figure skating virtuosos were at Chicago to whirl, spin and leap...
...limped off the rink when the music stopped. When Reiter finished, his free figures were a few points better than Lee's but Lee's lead the day before was still enough to save the title for him, 977.09 points to Reiter's 964.92. Perennial champion of U. S. women figure skaters is Maribel Vinson, who has won the title every year since 1928 except 1934 when she went abroad, placed fifth in the world's championship. Last week at Chicago, chic, brown-haired, 25-year-old Skater Vinson. who also rides, swims, sculls and writes...