Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autograph seeker interrupted the ex-champion's thoughts and when he returned it was to dwell on his pet hate, the newspapermen. "Why, in the old days if any writer had dared hint that a fight was fixed he'd have been run out of town, but today that's the first thing they think about. That's the trouble with these writers...
...wears his hair curled in a knot on top of his head, dresses in a 15-lb. fringed apron and an enormous belt made of twisted straw and paper streamers, looks as if he were proud of having just swallowed a medicine ball. He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan's most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years younger than Tama-nishiki...
...last 300 years,. Japan's professional wrestlers have been divided into two groups-East and West. Most of the year, Easts and Wests tour the country giving exhibitions, developing young sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo...
...ring count for more than muscle, sumo performers eat gigantic meals and occasionally reach monstrous proportions. Biggest among current sumo celebrities is Dewagatake who, a pygmy compared to oldtime sumo giants, stands 6 ft. 8 in., weighs 350 lb. His girth is only 3½ ft. to Champion Tama-nishiki...
...Dartmouth Carnival is the biggest College Ski event in the East. A team from the State of Washington is expected, McGill is sending some men, and the Cantabrigians will find the usual stiff competition from Dartmouth, New Hampshire, who is the defending champion, Williams, and many other colleges...