Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That piece is The Milky Way. Burleigh Sullivan (Hugh O'Connell) was a weakly child-"a Sagittarius baby," he recalls-who only survived his school days by his gift for adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening when tipsy Speed, world's middleweight champion, and his trainer simultaneously swing on him, miss and knock each other out. Misinformed, newspaper headlines next day scream that unknown Burleigh 'Sullivan has thrashed the champion. To save Speed's reputation, Burleigh is persuaded by Speed's manager to abandon his beloved milk route, become...
...bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they did not get around to organizing the Royal & Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews until 1754. Fortnight ago, little George T. Dunlap Jr., U. S. amateur champion, Johnny Goodman, U. S. open champion, and Boston's spectacled Francis Ouimet, stood with bared heads in the Graveyard of St. Andrews Cathedral. There, in the very Mecca of golfdom, lay many of the game's great dead. Golfer Ouimet solemnly laid a bunch of yellow flowers...
Neither Max Schmeling, onetime world's heavyweight champion, nor old Paulino ("the Basque Woodchopper") Uzcudun; a 12-round bout; in a three-ring boxing carnival in Montjuich Stadium at Barcelona, Spain...
...burning sun under a cloudless blue sky, a doughty Kirkland House baseball team felt the well sharpened Bulldog teeth of the champion Yale College batsmen, as they went down to inglorious defeat before the clever pitching of the Jonathan Edwards team by a score of 11-0 yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Yesterday afternoon at 2.30 the trials for the Carroll Cup races were held over the three-quarter mile course. George L. Scott '34, a former holder of the cup, turned in the best time with 4.55 to win his heat. Paul C. Reardon '32, also a former champion, covered the distance in 5.05 to come out ahead in his heat. The other trials went to Frederick H. White ocC., in 5.17, Hamilton Richards '36 in 5.27, and Arthur V. Meigs in 5.07. The finals will be held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock over a mile course...