Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bentley at number 5 and Jim Fuld at 6 were the only Crimson racquetmen to win both their singles matches. In doubles, Jimmy Glidden earned the distinction of being undefeated in two matches. The squad champion teamed with Jim Roberts against Pennsylvania, and with Gordie Robertson against the Naval Academy to garner two triumphs...
That is a fine portrait of Sportswoman Eleonora Sears which appears in TIME, March 16. It will interest many readers. Long before the World War, Miss Sears was known as a pedestrian champion when visiting friends in California. You did not mention in your article that the aristocratic Miss Sears once hiked alone from the Burlingame Country Club to Hotel Del Monte-over 100 miles-escorted by a motorcade of sport-loving friends. It was a record-breaking hike. During the same season (about 1911) Miss Sears kept up a stable of polo ponies and rode on the polo fields...
...contacts ripened into friendships. Piquant was the fact last week that the violent treaty rupture committed by vegetarian & teetotaling Adolf Hitler should be defended and explained to the Council of the League of Nations gathered in beef-eating Britain by a onetime Rhine wine salesman whose duty was to champion & excuse remilitarization of the Rhineland...
This extravagant reception at the International Skating Carnival last week was nothing new for 23-year-old Sonja Henie, Olympic Figure-skating Champion in 1928-32-36, World Champion in 1927-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36. What was new was that Norway's Henie was making her first appearance as a professional. For ten performances in the East and Midwest, she will receive $70,000, plus a percentage of the gate receipts...
Although he has made some very fast times this year, Graham Cummin will be up against two very good back-strokers in Dan Zehr, Northwestern star and Big Ten champion in the event, and Willis Willey, Princeton junior who defeated Cummin and broke the intercollegiate backstroke mark in the Princeton meet this year...