Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting exhibits ever shown at the Fogg Museum will be opened to the public today. A group of sculptured portraits of British Champion Animals, made by Herbert C. Haseltine '99, will be on exhibit until March 17. These pieces were loaned to the Fogg Museum from the Field Museum in Chicago...
...three-to-one favorite, Schmeling started slowly, landed three hard rights on Hamas' jaw in the second round. For six rounds thereafter, crouching to keep his left shoulder between his chin and Schmeling's right hand, Hamas amazed the crowd by outboxing and outpunching the onetime champion. Until the ninth round, Schmeling wore the smile that a worried fighter puts on when he is trying to look as if he is biding his time. Then Hamas opened a deep cut over Schmeling's left eye. Desperation made Schmeling time his punches better in the eleventh...
Last week's decision made it look as if Madison Square Garden, whose Miami bout between Loughran and Champion Camera was postponed until Feb. 28, had temporarily ceased to be an important promoter of fights. It also indicated that Schmeling had finished his career as a first-rate fighter; that young Hamas, who took up boxing four years ago to help pay his brother's doctors, was a possible opponent for ebullient Maxie Baer next summer...
...Sealyhams as best brace in the show, four of their dark-haired Scottish cousins as best team. Would he switch now to the great pointer, prancing proud and free as a stallion, of famed Fancier Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.? Or to the magnificent poodle, champion of England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France, entered by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan? . . . Finally Judge Jarrett waved the two-year-old fox terrier bitch, Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, into the winning stall...
...champion was imported from England two months ago by Stanley Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y. Last week lay spectators admired the immense dignity, weighty as a Newfoundland's, with which she comported herself in the ring. But Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston did not win their hearts until, at the very moment when Judge Jarrett was naming her U. S. Dog of the Year, she slipped her leash and frisked across the ring as saucily as though her name were...