Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambushed at the door of his home, beaten and hospitalized with painful injuries was Mayor James M, O'Brien of Revere, Mass. Held in $5,000 bail, charged with assault with intent to murder was Robert Jasse, New England's onetime middleweight boxing champion, laid off by Mayor O'Brien as chief of the Suffolk Downs race track special police, who had been heard to say at Revere's City Hall that he had been "tossed around enough," that when he saw the Mayor he would "tear him apart." Next day the convalescent Mayor lay abed...
...bucktoothed, towheaded 11-year-old named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship. Powerful Lenore Right of Homestead, Pa., fastest woman swimmer in the U. S.. broke two world records (mile and 880-yd. freestyle). Georgia Coleman, Olympic springboard diving champion in 1932, was on the sidelines, judging, as was the girl who swam across the English Channel in 1926, Gertrude Ederle. To take the place...
...Eleanor Holm Jarrett, perennial backstroke champion, who was appearing in a Dallas doorshow last week, were her protégées the Kompa sisters, Erna and Elizabeth. Quite as pretty, almost as fast, they finished first and second in the 220-yd. race. Katherine Rawls won the 300-metre medley for the fourth year in a row, just after being severely frightened by a bolt of lightning which struck a nearby telegraph pole. RealtorJoseph P. Day, dressed in a bathing suit, handed out prizes. It was the Amateur Athletic Union National championship swimming meet for women. When...
...Hoergers, Ruth (12), Mary ( 11 ), and Helen (5), Mary distinguished herself most last week. In the springboard dive, she amazed her judges with a 2½ forward somersault which Olympic Platform Champion Dorothy Poynton Hill had said the day before no woman could ever hope to execute perfectly. When the judges, adding up points for her nine other efforts, declared 74-lb. Mary Hoerger the national champion, she bugged her eyes, wagged a hand at a judge, shrilled: "Hold me. My knees are weak." In the platform dive, Ruth Hoerger finished second to blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill...
Married. Jimmy McLarnin, 28, twice Welterweight Boxing Champion of the World; and Lillian Cupi,. Vancouver schoolteacher, his childhood sweetheart; in Vancouver...