Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the younger, more methodical of the two. Dr. Max Euwe, was the new world chess champion. A mathematics teacher at the Girls' Lyceum in Amsterdam, he puzzled stolidly over his plays while Dr. Alexandre Alekhine fidgeted and squirmed in the chair opposite him, smoked countless cigarets, gulped countless cups of coffee. At first, Champion Alekhine's brilliant attack, bordering on the reckless, put him in the lead. On his 43rd birthday, after three weeks of play, he was leading, 5-to-2. Unworried, unhurried. Challenger Euwe drew closer. His opponent's moves, as recorded...
Three onetime champions and a group of able youngsters, however, supplied enough upsets and excitement. Chipper Jimmy Caras, always best on birthdays, celebrated his 25th by blanking Joe Procita, 125-to-0. Bland, bald-headed Bennie Allen, three-time champion, dropped one ball after another into the pockets, gave the boisterous onlookers their greatest thrill by making a straight run of 125. Finally, after two weeks of round-robin, the winner: Caras...
...thus bringing heavyweight boxing to its all-time low, Joe Louis had been a professional less than one year. Since then the Detroit Negro has brought back to the sport a brand of excitement unknown since the days of Dempsey. Whereas practically nobody has indicated any desire to watch Champion Braddock flex his biceps, record-breaking crowds have squeezed in to watch Louis in encounters which were not much more competitive than Braddock's straight exhibition matches...
...experts, separate him from the heavyweight championship, since he is scheduled to fight Braddock next September. Meantime he and his managers, a pair of dusky financiers from Detroit and Chicago, plan to eliminate Isadoro Gastanaga in Havana Dec. 29, Charley Retzlaff in Chicago the following month, one-time Champion Max Schmeling in New York City in June. A routine incident in this schedule included the elimination of Paulino Uzcudun at Madison Square Garden last week...
...Marcum. Next month Yawkey will probably pay Mack another $200,000 for Infielder McNair and Outfielder Cramer. With Foxx at first base, with his accurate home-run eye fixed on Fenway Park's short left-field fence, dopesters figure Boston the most likely outfit to topple the World Champion Detroit...