Word: champion
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...fencing exhibition by Joseph Levis, national and Olympic champion, and Richard Walker, captain of the 1932 fencing team, will be one of the high spots of the Lucky Charity Ball which will enliven time-worn Memorial Hall Friday night. The other highlights will include a Fashion Review, a concert by the Harvard Alumni Chorus, and music by the Boston Commanders...
...Varsity Crews will resume their activity this afternoon. Coach Whiteside has made an almost definite choice of the men who will row against Princeton and M.I.T. in the Compton Cup Races on May 9. Whiteside is facing the same problem that Joe Stubbs faced in hockey this winter. A champion crew has graduated leaving only one veteran and five members of the present boat are Sophomores. It is the problem of the coach to build for next year when the positions of the two men who are graduating this year will be adequately filled by some of the members...
Sidney S. Coggin '34 won the Vane Trophy that goes to the Intercollegiate chess champion each year. Eric W. Marchand '36 placed third in the tournament...
...when his Thomond II finished third last week, is William Collins Whitney's grandson. Delaneige, who led the field most of the way, is owned by John B. Snow, merchandise manager of Woolworth's in England. G. H. Wilson, Golden Miller's jockey, is a Canadian, champion British gentleman jockey with 61 victories last year...
...Rollo Stoefen is 22. Born on a lonely Iowa farm, he thrived in Los Angeles, growing 6 in. in his 17th year, in. more in his 18th. He started tennis at 16; later than most good players. After teaching himself on the public courts, he beat John Doeg (1930 champion) in a match in 1930 without the semblance of a backhand. During the past year he has improved rapidly, climbing from 6th to 3rd ranking. Since the retirement of Ellsworth Vines as an amateur, he may easily become a U. S. topnotcher...