Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something-for-nothing theories reached them. Last week with their club still going strong, Chelan's Townsendites were preparing to test the soundness of their champion's plan...
...tennis with lawn tennis. Always recondite pastime, racquets has traversed the social gamut more completely than any other game. It started in London debtors' prisons, where no other form exercise was practical, in the 18th Century. A prison alumnus, Robert Mackay was the first recognized world's champion in 1820. In 1822, Harrow schoolboys took up the game. In 1853, when London Prince's Club built a racquets court, racquets became exclusively a pastime of patricians. Racquets' rise in the world was accompanied by no spread in popularity. There are only twelve racquets courts which cost...
...checkup of the team's personnel reveals a fairly even distribution of strength in the various events. Lead by Olympic veteran Charles Hutter, the 50, 100, and 220 yard events will undoubtedly be fertile fields for Crimson harvests this winter. Intercollegiate champion in the 100, and holder of numerous other records, 'Hydroplane' Hutter shouldn't have to paddle through anybody's wash all year. In the 220, he will be ably supported by Ray Benedict and Darle Berizxi...
Married, Joyce Wethered, 34, world's greatest woman golfer, four times English woman champion; and Captain Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 42, British sportsman; in London...
Died. Martin J. ("Farmer") Burns, 75, onetime world's wrestling champion; in Council Bluffs, Iowa; of senility. Burns defeated Evan Lewis (the original "Strangler") for the heavyweight title in 1895, when choke holds were allowed, lost to Tom Jenkins three years later, trained Frank Gotch to throw Jenkins. Trainer and Chautauqua lecturer, he boasted: "Only one man out of Cedar County, Iowa (Herbert Hoover), ever made more money than I did and he got to be President of the United States...