Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 28 Champion Joe Louis is scheduled to defend his title against barrel-bellied, beer-bibbing Tony Galento, another unfit...
...contenders was 30-year-old Max Baer, onetime world's heavyweight champion who had not been in a ring for 15 months. The other was 24-year-old Lou Nova of Alameda, Calif., an inexperienced second-rater. By the eighth round, Has-been Baer was staggering, half-blind, and choking from the blood he had been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling...
...Boxer Henry Armstrong, world's welterweight and lightweight champion: a 15-round match in defense of his welterweight title; lambasting the challenger, Britain's Welterweight Champion Ernie Roderick, who had won 23 previous fights in a row; before 5,000 howling Britons, some of whom paid ten guineas (about $50) for their ringside seats; at Harringay Arena, London. For his performance, Champion Armstrong, undefeated in 46 fights, received ?8,000 ($40,000), largest purse in British boxing history...
...seventh-place (American League) Detroit Tigers, with bespectacled Rookie Paul Trout pitching: a baseball game (6-to-1) against the-tip-top New York Yankees: handing the World Champion Yankees their first defeat in 13 games, ending the longest winning streak of the season; at Yankee Stadium, The Bronx. By week's end, the Cincinnati Reds, leaders in the National League pennant race, had also spun a string of twelve victories in a row, were finally defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals...
...Alexander Kyle, 32-year-old Scot: the British Amateur Golf Championship; defeating Welshman Anthony Duncan, 2 & i, in the final; at Holyake, England. Of the five U. S. entrants-Defending Champion Charlie Yates, famed Tennist Ellsworth Vines, Connecticut Socialite Dick Chapman, "Trailer" Bill Holt of Syracuse and one Ned Phillips of Philadelphia-"Trailer" Bill Holt lasted longest (semifinal...