Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English team includes: Diana Fishwick Kent, British Women's National 1930; Pamcia Barton 17 year old runner up in the 1934 British Open; Melly Gourlay, twice English closed champion; Diana Plumpton, runner up, 1933 British champion, and Wanda Morgan, 1933 English Closed Champion...
Among the British and American top-liners who will tee off at Chevy Chase are Virginia Van Wie, Chicago, twice national women's champion; Maureen Orcutt, four times Metropolitan champion; Mrs. Opal S. Hill, Kansas City, present trans-Mississippi title holders and Lncille Robinson, present western champion, all members of the American team...
...Liberty last month published an article by onetime champion Ellsworth Vines, flaying the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association for being ungrateful to the players who support it. At Forest Hills last week, Vines, now a professional, appeared to broadcast the matches. He was asked to leave...
...practicing with a pair of boxing gloves. Enraged, Father Jarosz seized an axe, hacked the gloves to pieces. Before the biggest crowd (28,000) that ever attended a prizefight in Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Teddy Yarosz last week used another pair of gloves to hack the face of Middleweight Champion Vince Dundee. After eleven rounds, Dundee really began to fight. He won the last four rounds, did his best work in the 15th. but when the bell rang two of the three judges thought Yarosz's margin earlier in the bout entitled him to the championship...
Handsome, dark-haired. Polish. Champion Yarosz plans a long rest, followed by a bout against Marcel Thil of France, recognized by the International Boxing Federation as world's middleweight champion. Said Dundee: "A hometown decision. . . . I was robbed...