Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happiest girl in the world today and I'm going to work my head off playing." Last week, in Chicago, Babe Didrikson, 22, made her first appearance as a professional golfer in the Western Open Championship for Women, attracted a large gallery who hoped that she and onetime Amateur Champion Helen Hicks would meet in the final...
...history of U. S. pugilism, filled though it is with the names of many able Negro fighters, there has been only one black heavyweight champion of the world. He, baldheaded, gold-toothed old Jack Johnson, last week climbed into a New York prizering for the honor of being introduced to a crowd that had come to see the Negro who may well be the second. Presently, Jack Johnson clambered out of the ring and the man the crowd had come to see stood up. Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) of Detroit, whose exploits in the past year have made...
Queen Mary barred, anticipated an especially crisp curtsy from the nimblest presentee on the current Court list, California's National Women's Tennis Champion Miss Helen Hull Jacobs...
...example an encouragement to overexertion. During an influenza epidemic. Dr. Code made 1,600 calls in 36 days. Having invented Codeball-on-the-Green, Dr. Code was still not satisfied. He later invented Codeball-in-the-Court, a combination of handball and soccer, at which the U. S. champion is one Gilbert Shaw of Yonkers...
When James J-Braddock paid off his $367.24 indebtedness for relief, the Hudson County, N. J., bureau reported the incident to superiors, adding: "Incidentally, Mr. Braddock recently became the champion heavyweight of the world...