Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the 15th, at the end of a close, clever, almost even fight, McLarnin trotted to his corner, prepared to execute the handspring with which he customarily celebrates a victory. Referee Eddie Forbes walked across the ring to the opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion in history to win the welterweight championship as well. Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) had his first fist fight when he was eight years old, grew up on Chicago's West Side where his father ran a delicatessen, has two managers, wears silk pajamas, fancies himself a songwriter...
...firm favorite to capture the meet and thus complete a 10-year hold on the title by the Pacific coast. One of the most unusual upsets was the dramatic failure of Sam Klopstock, Stanford's favorite in the high hurdles and the defeat of Dick Hardy of Cornell, defending champion in the 100-metre dash...
...Champion House (Brooks)-Yale at Derby...
Lester Stoefen of Los Angeles, the nation's third ranking player and indoor champion, made his cup debut by beating the veteran Canadian internationalist...
Next Saturday is the big day, though, for then the crew travels to Derby, Connecticut, to stroke it out with the champion crew of the Yale Colleges...