Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Robert Tyre Jones Jr. won all four of the world's major golf champion-ships-U. S. and British Open, U. S. and British Amateur-in the single season of 1930, he accomplished a feat which seemed clearly incomparable. At Cleveland last week, another golfer accomplished a feat which, if not quite the equal of Jones's "grand slam," was definitely comparable to it and in some respects even more remarkable. William Lawson Little Jr. of San Francisco won the U. S. Amateur Championship for the second year in a row, after winning the British Amateur...
...first came in the semifinals, when Little and Johnny Goodman, U. S. Open Champion in 1933, came to the 27th hole. Little and Goodman were roommates at Cleveland's Country Club. It had been a friendly good-natured match in which, while the two joked and chatted their way around the course, Goodman had pulled up to all-even after being 2 clown at the start of the afternoon round. Now, at a short hole, Goodman pitched his tee shot within two feet of the pin for an easy birdie. Little's ball stopped rolling 15 feet from...
...Tatem Tilden II won the U. S. Singles Championship for the first time in 1920. He won it six times thereafter, made himself indisputably the greatest player of the times, turned pro fessional in 1931. With Ellsworth Vines at home in California, Tilden last week became a U. S. Champion for the tenth time in his career, by beating tireless, brown-faced Karel Kozeluh, 0-6, 6-1. 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 in the final of the ninth National Professional Championship played in the presence of a handful of spectators on clay courts, at Flatbush...
Claiming the title of "Clover-Collecting Champion of the World," Chiropodist Girard in 20 years has found hundreds of four-leafers, scores of fivers and sixers, about a dozen seven-leafers. He likes to start a day in the country with a good two hours of clover hunting, between 7 and 9 a. m. when he finds conditions most suitable. His eight-leaf clover was discovered on the grounds of the Pleasant View Christian Science Home at Concord...
...started out," said Champion Girard, "the gardener and I, and in no time at all I found three five-leaf plants. I had them dug up and presented them to the home. It was the day Will Rogers was laid to rest, and I suggested they call them the Will Rogers clovers. The eight-leaf clover I have placed between slides of glass. I plan to have the whole thing mounted in gold and displayed at Franklin Institute if they will claim...