Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan nurses unwound thick bandages from the right eye of beefy, chocolate Sam Langford. An oldtime, hammer-handed prizefighter known to fans as "The Boston Tar Baby," Negro Langford would have been world's Lightweight Champion in 1903 if he had not been eight ounces over the weight limit when he mauled Joe Gans. In 1917 he was stalling through a fixed fight with Fred Fulton when Fulton punched his left eye so hard it had to be taken out. Soon cataracts formed over the right eye. Unable to see more than two feet ahead, Sam Langford fought...
Lynford Lardner, Jr. '37, former state champion of Wisconsin, will shoot as number 1 man in the match, and will be followed in order by Charles S. Bellows '37, Robert C. Hunter, Jr. '36, William E. Sibley, III '35, Captain. Mansfield Branigan '36, and George E. Enes '37. Roderick H. Sears '36 will be alternate...
...four men, C. Russell Allen, president of the Class, William T. Glendinning, heavyweight wrestling champion, John P. Kennedy, Jr. a member of the 1938 football team and Smoker Committee, and Arthur Oakes, captain of football, claim that 20 per cent of the students, not 4 per cent as stated by President Conant, compete for minor sport teams, with 4 per cent being directly on the teams...
World-weary old gentlemen about to blow out their brains do not as a rule leave their horses to little girls who are delivering a steak. Champion racehorses are not apt to be raffled off for a shilling ticket...
...Walter was nine. His father was greatly respected as conductor of the Breslau Orchesterverein. As his friends and often as his guests the elder Damrosch had such great musicians as Liszt, Wagner, von Bulow, Joachim, Auer, Rubinstein. In Manhattan he quickly established himself as Wagner's most ardent champion. He founded the New York Oratorio Society, then the New York Symphony. In 1884 he gave the fashionable new Metropolitan its first taste of German opera. Death came before he could finish the season...