Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourists, but not native Hawaiians, are impressed by the name of Duke Kahanamoku. The onetime (1912, 1920) Olympic swimming champion, surfboard rider, swimming instructor and Waikiki Beach figure was simply christened "Duke," is no member of the islands' decayed nobility. But as a result of last fortnight's election, Duke Kahanamoku became peace officer of an area far larger than any dukedom. Democratic votes put the brown-skinned native in as Sheriff of Honolulu County, "world's largest," extending from Oahu Island 1,300 mi. northwest to Midway Island. Vehemently anti-New Deal because of resentment over...
Sherman Henriksen of Eagle, Neb., the defending champion, was a favorite, but even some Nebraskans favored Harry Brown, from Beemer, up in Cuming County. He had placed second last year. To spur on two Iowa entrants, Estherville sent its Drum & Bugle Corps to Fairmont. The folks from Redwood Falls, Minn, brought along the town band to cheer on their Ted Balko, 29, four times Minnesota champion, fifth in national honors last year...
After 80 minutes the finish gun boomed. The judges declared Husker Balko the winner. He got $100 and a gold watch. Second place ($50) went to South Dakota's champion, Richard Anderson, who barely beat out Nebraska's Harry Brown for third place...
...Champion Balko's record of 25.78 net bushels in 1 hr. 20 min. was far below the world's record of 36.9 net bushels, set in 1932 by Carl Seiler, Illinois' left-handed champion...
...November 23 to open its very brief season. It was only last Thursday that the first meeting of the candidates was held, to which 60 men reported. At the initial practice yesterday 40 men turned out, and a scrimmage was held with the Winthrop House team, which, as the champion of the House Football League, is to play Vanderbilt College, the Yale Champions, here this Friday...