Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Browning last week climbed into a Manhattan ring to defend his "world's heavyweight wrestling championship" against lithe, indignant-looking Sandor Szabo, the "Hungarian Adonis." After 50 minutes of serious wrestling, in which Browning broke most of Szabo's holds by wriggling out of the ring, the champion caught Szabo in a "flying scissors." Szabo broke the hold but remained sufficiently dazed to fall into it again ten seconds later. This time, when Browning stopped thrashing his legs, Szabo lay still on his back and Referee Arthur Donovan patted the champion's shoulders...
...took the next five jumps without a fault. ¶Miss Mary Gwyn Fiers's nine-year-old chestnut mare Roxie Highland, which won the three-gaited stake, at which no horse has beaten her for three years. ¶Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim's chestnut gelding Firenze Fairfax, champion jumper of the meet, which won 50 ribbons...
...most important meet of the year the Harvard varsity cross country team meets the Yale and Princeton harriers at New Haven today. Harvard enters this meet as the defending champion, as the Crimson squad was victorious over both Yale and Princeton in the meet last year...
Robert Grant, Huntington Hartford, and Sandy Davenport, all Seniors, will beyond doubt fill the top three berths, as they did last year. Grant is the present state champion; Hartford, a brilliant but somewhat temperamental player; and Davenport, one of the steadiest players under Harry Cowles' tutelage. It is likely that positions four and five on the A team will be strongly contested for by Sophomores G. G. Glidden, and E. R. Sargent, both of whom did unusually well on their Freshman team...
James J. Fuld '37, won the Freshman Tennis Tournament yesterday by defeating Herbert M. Agoos '37, in the finals 6-0, 6-0, 6-4. Fuld prepared at Horace Mann School and is the Private School Champion of New York City. Agoos comes from the Boston Latin School...