Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first match of the season, the Harvard Freshman golf team will meet Watertown High School at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Oakley Country Club in Watertown. E. H. Peterson, Massachusetts Junior Champion, and former Exeter star, is expected to star for the Freshmen...
Seven defending champions return from last year's meet, four of them Harvard men. In the 1600 Alf Hallowell will be hard pressed to beat Johnny Scheu, his team-mate, and Morton Jenkins of M.I.T.; Johnny White, who took the 800 a year ago, will have some trouble in repeating this year, inasmuch as he is suffering from a stone bruise. Milbrandt of Northeastern, who is entered in four field events, is favored to take the shot put over Harvard's Johnny Dean, defending champion of both the shot and discus. Bob Playfair, Harvard's star sophomore distance...
...black velyet trousers, scored a touch on a stop-thrust, then another, on a direct attack. Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust. The score was tied again at three-all, then at four-all before the spectators, remembering that Miss Lloyd (U. S. champion in 1928 and 1931) was the only woman who defeated Miss Mayer in the 1928 Olympics, saw that she might really do it again. The foils flashed slowly until Miss Lloyd started an advance that ended with a foul. They parried cautiously again, the foils barely catching light...
Miss Mayer is not the only famed fencer who comes from Offenbach. Like Erskrath de Bary, Hans & Julius Thomson, H. Halberstadt, Stephanie Stern and many another, she was taught by Offenbach's famed professional, Arturo Gazzerra. In 1924, at 13. she was fencing champion of Germany. In 1928 she won the individual championship at the Olympics. In 1932, Helene Mayer visited the U. S. with the German Olympic team, stayed on as an exchange student at Scripps College...
...James ("Jim") Browning, world's heavyweight wrestling champion: two out of three falls in a match with bullet-headed, pot-bellied old Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; in the Mexico City bullring, watched by a crowd...