Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Blair Macdonald, 83, stockbroker, first U. S. Amateur golf champion (1895), designer of the first 18-hole golf course in the U. S. (Chicago Golf Club); after long illness; in Southampton...
Moonfaced, blue-shirted Richard Watts Jr. (Herald Tribune), was formerly the H. T's cinema critic. Boyish (Broadway's loudest heigh-hoer of good-looking actresses), he is also thoughtful (Broadway's briskest champion of social-minded plays). Often acute, Watts chiefly errs in being too rhapsodic about what he likes...
...Champion jinx in French shipping, which has had more than its share of bad luck and inept seamanship, has roosted on the red-and-black funnels of the 34,569-ton luxury liner Paris. Since her launching in 1921, she has run aground in New York harbor, broken her back on Eddystone Rocks off the English coast, rammed a Norwegian freighter, twice been damaged by mysterious fires...
...League has now been thrown into a wideopen scramble, but this 1939 version of Harvard baseball is just about the classiest to wear the Crimson spangles in a long time. They are still lodged in first place in the latest League standings, a half game ahead of the defending champion Dartmouth Indians and two and a half ahead of Yale...
Competition this weekend will be for the Morse Cup, the winner of which is recognized as intercollegiate dinghy champion. M.I.T., which won the prize last year, will attempt to defend its title against seven rivals...