Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Hagen, five times winner, failed to qualify. Tony Manero, U. S. Open champion, played 123 holes three under par and groaned about his putting. One-time Champions Tommy Armour, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen were all put out the same morning and the defending champion, Johnny Revolta, was beaten in the afternoon. Jimmy Thomson, famed as the husband of onetime Cinemactress Viola Dana and the longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig...
Best "lands" on Oyler's farm last week were those at the ends of the field chosen for the contest. Having drawn one of the middle lands, Minnesota's Ted Balko, 1934 champion, was handicapped by rows so spotty that once he found only three ears in 15 feet, of which one was so small that it flew through a crack in his bang-board. Adam Byczynski, Illinois champion and a hot favorite, husked fast but carelessly. His creditable total of 1,630 lb. was cut down to 1,466 by penalties. Well short of the Byczynski gross...
...Coach Dick Hanley, looked up the record of the bishop's son at Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College. He discovered that in four years Coach Waldorf had transformed an Oklahoma A. & M. team that had just lost seven games in a row into a conference champion. When Hanley resigned the following year, after an unsuccessful season, Lynn Waldorf replaced...
California. The U. S. is strong in ancient low life but not in ancient man. The "Minnesota Maid&" (TIME, Nov. 25, 1932), first dated at 20,000 years ago and thus a likely prospect for champion U. S. oldster, was later set down by many a scientist as an "intrusion"-a polite word which experts apply to material that does not belong to the geological layer in which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California...
...that Harvard has developed a football team which can gain more yards rushing and make more first downs than the powerful Navy team, Crimson chances to earn the title of Big Three champion appear brighter than they have for many years. The up and coming spirit of the Harvard players deserves enthusiastic backing by every student who can make the trip to the Yale Bowl next Saturday. Although Harvard may not be favored on paper in view of comparative scores, there is no reason to take a Blue victory for granted...