Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celluloid ball, light and fragile as a frozen bubble, flicked across the green table. On one side, stood Viktor Gyözö Barna, executing from just above his shoes the incredible backhand shots that have made him four times ping-pong champion of the world. On the other side, whacking them back with a persistence that amazed sophisticates in the crowd who knew that only two years ago he was one of the late Texas Guinan's tap-dancers, stood red-haired Jimmy McClure of Indianapolis...
...table, in Hungary, asztali tennis, in Germany, tisch tennis. In England, the only expert player who is likely to use the name ping-pong for the game invented by British Army officers in South Africa before the turn of the Century, is Frederick Perry. World's ping-pong champion before he became its No. 1 lawn tennist, Perry now prefers not to hear about his youthful exploits with a paddle...
Twenty Grand won the Kentucky Derby in 1931. Mate won the Preakness. When the season ended, Twenty Grand was three-year-old champion but many track followers still thought Mate the better horse. Two months ago, Mate was brought back from England and Twenty Grand came out of retirement for the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
...Janeiro, onetime Heavyweight Champion Primo Camera, 264 lb., fought Ervin Klausner, 202. In the sixth round, Fisticuffer Klausner begged his opponent to stop hitting him. The referee awarded the decision to Camera...
...Miami, Junior Welterweight Champion Barney Ross defended his title against Frankie Klick of San Francisco after their ten-round bout had been postponed four days on account of cold. The crowd of 12,000, sprinkled with rain, stood up and howled with delight when Barney Ross was awarded the decision on points...