Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...healthiest boy and girl, and parents from all over the State vied with each other for the healthiest baby. When the infants had been run through the medical mill like cars in straight-line production, a solemn-eyed tot named Jimmy Miller Huntley of Ames emerged as the grand champion sweepstakes winner with a health score...
...major occupation but as a recreation demanded by his lifework of building up his father's Ravenna stable of trotting horses which he hopes to make the best in Italy, if not in the world. Independently rich, Swimmer Gambi has for several years been challenging swimmers like Champion Marvin Nelson to a 5-mi. race for a $25,000 side bet. So far no one has bothered to accept. He uses a strange 76-to-the-minute stroke which causes him to be called "the Italian windmill." Thick and loquacious, Swimmer Gambi celebrated his victory by going to Montreal...
...that the teams which lead the leagues on Labor Day will finish first. On Labor Day last week, the Detroit Tigers were nine full games ahead of the Yankees and seemed destined to win the American League pennant more easily this year than last. In the National League, the Champion St. Louis Cardinals were clinging to first place by two games, with the Giants and Chicago Cubs bunched close behind and the Pittsburgh Pirates within striking distance...
...himself by failing to get a job in Hollywood on the strength of his appearance, by marrying a minor cinemactress named Judith Allen, and by defeating three hopelessly obscure heavyweight fighters. Buddy Baer is the 238-lb., 6-ft., 6-in., 20-year-old brother of one-time Heavyweight Champion Max Baer. He has thrashed some equally feeble opponents and had his naturally shy disposition impaired by pressagents who think, not without logic, that the only way to impress his existence on the U. S. public is to photograph him in postures even less dignified than those habitually assumed...
...Lanky, towheaded Sidney Wood got a scare from Gilbert Hall who was leading 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 4-2. Then Wood ran out four games for the match. Refused permission to wear spikes, Czech Roderick Menzel played shoeless. Champion Fred Perry, too indifferent to win love sets, frisked through a match with one Arthur S. Fowler of Pleasantville, N. Y., 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. William Tatem Tilden II, present as a spectator, announced that Perry's strokes were bad, predicted that Donald Budge would play him in the final, snubbed an autograph hunter...