Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrappy middleweights now in training for the Battle of the Decade are Ethiopia, the Champion who won at Adowa in 1896, and Italy, the Challenger now set for a spectacular comeback. Last week the New York Herald Tribune finally succeeded in placing a word wizard in each training camp and printed their dispatches prizefightwise daily in adjoining columns...
...Ethiopian Lion is quietly sharpening his claws in preparation for the moment when he will pit his courage, savage skill and crude weapons against the scientifically equipped Italian Jackal," cabled the Herald Tribune's Linton Wells from the Champion's corner in Addis Ababa, taking sides at once as a good fight reporter must. "What impresses one particularly is the amazing morale of these classic-featured, bushy-haired black men. . . . So eager to fight are the Ethiopian lions that the Emperor is able only with difficulty to restrain them from attacking the Italians and precipitating the conflict...
...year-old tennist from Milwaukee. Two years ago, his promise made such a profound impression upon Mercer Beasley that that famed coach not only undertook to improve his game but legally adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville. Last week, at Forest Hills, N. Y., Frankie Parker played Champion Fred Perry in the fourth round of the National Men's Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days in a row and the U. S. sports public was pestered with...
...vanished from sports pages, editorials and columns as quickly as the puddles on the West Side Tennis Club's courts. Frank Shields, playing better than ever before in his life, took one set and twice missed the point that would have given him another before he lost to Champion Perry, 4-6, 6-4, 6-8, 0-6. Three days after the schedule had called for the championships to end, Perry, Allison, Budge, Grant, Wood remained in the men's single; Jacobs and Fabyan in the women...
...lighted parks, mostly in the Midwest. In 1934, the Amateur Softball Association was formed, drew up a book of rules. Since then more than 1,000,000 copies have been distributed. Last week in Chicago, 40 men's and 16 women's softball teams, each champion of a state or a city of more than 500,000 population, met to decide the championship of the U. S. In three days, crowds estimated at 150,000 watched their games...