Word: champion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mary Lou Petty of Seattle, blonde, stocky, 21-year-old protegee of the Washington Athletic Club's famed Coach Ray Daughters, who makes her swim an hour a day, allows her to train on baked potatoes and badminton, last week beat Champion Lenore Right Wingard in two free-style events, set a new U. S. record...
...progress was the National Table Tennis Tournament on twelve tables, under green-shaded lamps, surrounded by the flags of the four nations represented by contestants. After three days of agitation in the ballroom, the tournament.ended as table-tennis experts had predicted: Viktor Barna of Budapest, five times world champion, won the men's title. Ruth Hughes Aarons won the women's. Together they took the mixed doubles title and, to make her performance perfect, Rath Aarons also shared the women's doubles championship. If sleek little Viktor Barna is the Tilden of table tennis, Ruth Hughes Aarons...
...Europe the game has more prestige than it enjoys in the U. S. Five thousand spectators watched Miss Aarons win the world's championship. Crowds almost as large cheered her in London. Vienna, Budapest. Although the best Philadelphia could muster was a picayune 500 for the final, Champion Aarons thinks the game has a future in the U. S., set out, after last week's tournament, on a barnstorming tour to prove...
Before he became world's lawn-tennis champion, Fred Perry held the world's table-tennis title. Champion Aarons hopes to follow his example, expects to give up table for lawn tennis next year...
...Second Class Champion of New Hampshire at present, and is also secretary of the Mountaineering Club...