Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
...Havana real estate and a magnificent fighting brain so single-tracked that it so far contains only a few dozen English words, Kid Chocolate makes himself a nuisance to his indulgent Cuban manager, Luis Gutierrez, by misbehaving instead of training. After a month's rest, Champion Chocolate will go abroad for four bouts, one of them a return match against Seaman Watson in London...
favorites in tomorrow's contests. Duncan McNaughton, the Southern California Olympic high jump champion, is expected to fall by the wayside for first place honor, as well as another Olympic champion, Bill Miller of Stanford the pole vault...
...Morse of '34, will run for Harvard in the spectacular 800-meter race, facing Bonthron of Princeton, Ben Eastman of Stanford, and Mangan of Cornell, the intercollegiate mile champion...
Losing by only a three and a half second margin, the Winthrop House crew was outrowed by the Yale Junior "A" crew in the Basin on Saturday afternoon. The Puritan boat, champion of the Harvard House crews, unexpectedly opened up at the start and led for the first half mile. But the Elis drew up at the mile mark and surged ahead to the finish line, winning by an even length over the mile and three-quarters distance...