Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parlance of boxing, a Negro contender for the heavyweight championship, when this is held by a white, is a "black menace." When a black menace becomes champion, search starts for a "white hope." Boxing experts have been so sure that the current black menace-Joe Louis of Detroit-will win the heavyweight championship as soon as he fights the current holder, James J. Braddock, that talk about a white hope started prematurely as early as last autumn. Thus far no white hope has appeared, but last week it became apparent that if, after first disposing of Max Schmeling on June...
...them by knockouts. Joe Louis knocked out Primo Camera in six rounds. Haynes did it in three last March. On the ground that this performance was worth repeating with more ballyhoo, Haynes and Camera were rematched. Last week, after Haynes had been carefully studied by boxing experts, photographed with Champion Braddock feeling his muscles, pronounced better than Louis by famed Jack Johnson (who is jealous of the fighter who may become the second Negro heavyweight champion in ring history), Haynes and Camera climbed into a Brooklyn ring. Less impressive than their first performance, the bout lasted nine rounds, ended...
...after a terrific match, put out Scotland's famed Jack McLean at the 20th hole but, in another terrific match the next day, he had lost to James Ferrier. It was Ferrier now who seemed entirely capable of taking the title back to New South Wales. Amateur champion of Australia at 22, a huge young man whose crude swing is capable of propelling the ball 350 yd., he had won most of his matches with disheartening ease. When he disposed of Alec Hill, who had beaten beefy Cyril Tolley in the quarterfinals, there was no one left between...
...backed as the No. 1 U. S. entrant in the Women's British Golf Championship, never won by a U. S. player. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, five-time contender for the title, lost her temper, then her first-round match to her close friend Charlotte Glutting. Defending Champion Wanda Morgan was also eliminated in the opening round. As it turned out, best of all the ladies was London's 19-year-old Pamela ("Pam") Barton, who looks, acts and plays like Patty Berg. Husky, handsome, red headed, she reached the final in 1934 and 1935, lost both times...
Died. Hu Han-min, 52, most potent champion of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Canton, China. Friend and disciple of the late great Sun Yatsen, he helped draft China's constitution, codified its basic laws, opposed Chiang Kai-shek's direct methods. Arrested and forced into exile, he returned to China last February on Chiang's invitation...