Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that before three recent bouts, a man had pushed his way into his dressing room, instructed him to "lay down," lose the match. These orders he had faithfully executed until last March. Then, indignant at having to lose all the time, he disobeyed his dressing room order by pinning Champion Danno O'Mahoney in a world championship match. At this testimony Promoter Jack Curley, who with five others rules the wrestling world today, exploded. Such a thing as a "-fixed" match, he yelped, was unknown...
Gene Sarazen, former national and British open golf champion, will lecture and show moving pictures at Dillon Field House this afternoon at two o'clock under the auspices of the golf team. All undergraduates are invited...
...backfire on my letter "Santa Monica's Bottles" [TIME, April 20j, contained such words as "peeve," "libel," "free board and room," "weary bones " etc Therefore I feel that TIME might give me a few more lines to say that Mr. Harry Press is really in no position to champion Santa Monica and Santa Monica...
...Norman C. Armitage starred on Columbia University's 1928 team, have since pushed steadily to the top. A stocky left-hander who moves surprisingly fast for his build, Alessandroni won the foils title in 1934, was runner-up last year. Tied for first place with the defending champion, Joseph L. Levis, and the national three-weapon champion, John R. Huffman, he made spectacular use of the parry-riposte, beat them both in a triple fence-off last week. Tall, willowy Norman Armitage, who sports a little waxed mustache, had little difficulty in taking his third straight sabre title...
...champion of the Great American Farmer, Mr. Wallace has done more than his share. In the field of agricultural economics, his contributions in the matter of crop-yield forecasts and long range price-level predictions head the long list of his accomplishments and efforts in behalf of the famer...