Word: champion
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...usually dresses in brown. He always carries a cane. He is reputed to be one of the world's best judges of fine cattle. Every year for the past eight he has taken a trip to the U. S. to decide which steer should be named Grand Champion at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago...
Three days later Grand Champion Texas Special was put on the auction block, in dispirited bidding was sold to Pfaelzer Packing Co. for $1,676.25-$1.25 a lb., lowest price since 1923 when Broadus White Socks brought but 60? a lb.* Before being cut up, Texas Special was taken to Pittsburgh, exhibited some more...
...Cooper, Jr. '33 and P. W. A. Hines '34 are the outstanding letter men of last year's team. Hines has lost only one bout in two years, and that one to the Canadian Intercollegiate champion. Cooper also holds this reputation having lost only once, and then in an unusually close bout last year in the Yale match...
...boxing, not music, is his real hobby. Now a sparse man of 58, his muscles are as tough as they were when 40 years ago he started to work for his father and installed a gymnasium next to 'his office. For some years he was considered amateur heavyweight champion and boxed with such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, "Battling" Joe Choynski. When the Illinois Athletic Club was opened in 1904 he took on Jack Johnson. At the end of the fight Johnson said, "I will back Lytton against anyone in the world." Merchant Lytton was a judge...
Three tournaments in indoor sports for Freshmen have been scheduled for the winter season in the Union. Pingpong, pool, and billiard matches will be played, with a silver trophy as the prize for the champion in each division. Entries for the contests close on December...