Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed his manly physique, flashed a little of the well-known personality, posed for a couple of pictures, and closed with the final remark, "Now boys, I hope next June you will hear the referee over the radio say '9 and out, and Baer is still world's champion...
...Beekman Pool '32, who is generally considered to be the greatest squash player to come out of Harvard. Pool, the younger, combined his straight, hard-hitting front wall game with corner and drop shots to good advantage. Much like Pool in his style of play is the present intercollegiate champion, E. Rotan Sargent '36, to whom Cowles looks as the next National Champion. Sargent ran the present National champ. Neil Sullivan, to five games and is considered the most serious contender for his crown...
None other than the world's champion himself, Max Baer in person, was paying Harvard a visit off the record. Dressed conservatively in a double-breasted gray suit, with coal black hair combed smoothly down, he blew in about 4.30 o'clock to give Coach Lamar's varsity mittmen a few sage words of advice...
Harvard has been beaten but five times in its 31 encounters, in the last three years bowing only to Yale, and this year's team is a fit successor to that led by Esty Stowell, captain of yesterday, year and intercollegiate backstroke champion...
...confused with onetime (1916-20) Light-Heavyweight Champion Barney ("Battling'') Levinsky...