Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving space to Aux Frontières du Jazz (TIME, Jan. 2), a much-needed book in America and one which we hope will let in the light about true jazz. The "musicians' " jazz band, as opposed to the public's, has never before had a champion. As jazz music auditors become educated they invariably rely on the concoctions and artistry of such as Frank Trumbauer, the Dorsey brothers, the late Bix, Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden and Louis (The Great) Armstrong for satisfaction...
...week; soon they will be racing at Manila for the Philippine Islands championship; at Honolulu, for the Hawaiian Lipton Championship. The International Championship, No. 1 event for star boats, which Edward A. Fink of Long Beach, Calif., won last summer at Southport, Conn., is sailed every year on the champion's home water; only fleet winners are eligible to compete...
...Welker Cochran of San Francisco: the world's three-cushion billiard championship; by beating John Layton, ten times titleholder, 50 to 33, in the deciding match; at Chicago. It was the first three-cushion tournament Cochran, balkline champion in 1928, had ever entered. Said he, after winning: "I'm sure I'm going to prefer balkline...
...Jack has been consistently lowering his time during the season and probably will place first with Howe and Wright fighting it out for second. A fifth Sophomore. R. W. McCoy '35, will wear the Crimson colors in the backstroke. Although E. E. Stowell '34, last year's intercollegiate backstroke champion, is expected to win this event easily, McCoy will have a hard time edging Jennings for second place...
...Tough little Thomas ("Seaman Tom") Watson. British featherweight champion, who was humiliated last fortnight when N. Y. Athletic Commissioners publicly doubted whether he was competent to oppose first-rate U. S. fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship...