Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most experts and more nonexperts carry golf bags equipped with everything except an icebox, the history of golf has been partly the history of the elaboration of its implements. Famed Charles ("Chick") Evans, when he won the U. S. Open in 1916, carried only seven clubs. Last summer, Open Champion Tony Manero carried 19, Amateur Champion Johnny Fischer...
...Barney Berlinger won it in 1931. Decathloner Jim Bausch won it in 1932. This "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish, then?" year, voting for the Sullivan award was closer than usual. Early returns made it look as if it would go to famed Jesse Owens, the triple Olympic champion Negro sprinter, who failed to win last year mainly because the fact that he was a page in the Ohio State Legislature cast a cloud over his amateur standing. Last week, when the final votes were tabulated, Owens was in second place, with 1.013 votes...
...Million (Twentieth Century-Fox J rates as a classic because it preserves for posterity the spectacle of Sonja Henie skating. Ten times (1927 to 1936) world, three times (1928, 1932, 1936) Olympic figure skating champion, Skater Henie is without doubt the best figure skater who ever lived. For her, the 80 standard figures on which figure skating is based are not a test of skill, but the vocabulary of a form of self-expression which for sheer elegance compares to ballet dancing as the ballet compares to the Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty...
Walter L. Crampton '36 1G.B. was the 125 1b. Champion in the Eastern Intercollegiate Association...
...York SMI in 1883, aged 19. At that time the SMI thought extraordinarilv well of itself, encouraged its young men to write long "literary" pieces. Thriving young Arthur Brisbane was made the Sun's London correspondent, wrote a famous account of the fight between John L. Sullivan and Champion Charly Mitchell of England, became himself an expert boxer...