Word: champion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...North American Clay Target Champion was Joe Hiestand, 28-year-old farmer of Hillsboro, Ohio, who, when he broke 199 out of the first 200 birds, found himself tied with nine other shooters. Thereupon he broke 100 straight for the title...
...Women's Champion was Mrs. Lela Hall of East Lynne, Mo. Tiny (100 lb.), determined and a dead shot with a twelve-gauge gun that nearly kicked her off her feet, she broke 191 targets, four better than her closest rival...
...year in the Pacific Coast final when he forced him to five sets. His performances at home and abroad this summer have made him the sensation of the tennis year. He is the first U. S. player since Vines who really appears to have the potentialities of a world champion - provided he does not turn professional before he reaches his peak game. Furthermore, whether he beats Perry next week or not, experts were agreed that if he goes on improving at his present rate, he may well do so in the future...
...Crosby or the Mills Brothers, drinks nothing stronger than milk. On the court, the quality that marks his game is the one in which he sometimes seems most lacking elsewhere -savoir-faire. The quality which he will need most if he is to develop into a Class A tennis champion is confidence, and his demeanor this summer indicates that he is rapidly acquiring it. In the final at Newport, Shields returned a first serve by mistake and then courteously called: "Take two. . . ." Replied grinning Budge: "One's plenty." He served once, won the point...
...last week to put him in a tie for third place, which he won after a shoot-off. Winner was a 51 -year-old Seabord Air Line Railway conductor from Tallahassee, Fla., named Jordan B. Royall. No novice, Royall has been shooting for nine years, has been a Florida champion for four of the last five. Nonetheless, partly because he had never entered the Grand American before, few shooters at Vandalia knew who he was until, firing from 20 yd., he broke 98 targets out of the first 100 to tie Sam G. Vance of Tillsonburg, Ont. The rest...