Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before last week's fight, sportswriters were inclined to think that Joe Louis might some day win the world's heavyweight championship. When it was over they took it for granted. If and when he becomes heavyweight champion-by beating Max Schmeling next September, then Max Baer, and finally Champion Braddock-Joe Louis will be handicapped in his enjoyment of that honor by the most absurd string of nicknames, the most dazzling rise to fame and possibly the most extraordinary temperament in the history of his sport...
...which looks odd because he keeps his right hand under the club, uses a scythe-like swing. Among the absurd legends about him which he had to deny last week was one, invented by reporters who could think of nothing else to say, that he was lefthanded. Said Open Champion Perry: "The only thing I do with my left hand is to scratch my head...
...lost to Australia's unorthodox Vivian McGrath in the first round. After seven days of play, the only U. S. player left in the men's singles was red-haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. Experts agreed that England's Fred Perry, last year's champion, still had the best chance...
Because most wrestling addicts firmly believe their favorite sport to be dishonestly conducted and because Heavyweight Champion Jim Londos was scheduled to climax his season with a widely ballyhooed charity match against Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf"), no one paid much attention to Londos' bout with a young Irishman named Danno O'Mahoney last week except O'Mahoney and 30,000 Bostonians who crowded Fenway Park to watch it. An agreement between the wrestlers stated that if the bout, originally billed as two out of three falls, lasted more than an hour, the first to gain...
...arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...