Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion himself is responsible for the information that he was only 7 or 8 years of age when he visited Scotland with his parents, and we all know that the most capable golf teacher in the history of the game could not have done very much in developing Sandy's championship at that age. The true facts of the case are that Ross Somerville's game has been developed under the careful tutoring of Kernie Marsh, the clever Canadian professional of the London Hunt and Country Club this city, and Sandy himself is very open and generous...
...light two-cycle engine was described by Dick Roberts, plump aviation editor of the Toledo Blade. It had just been flown for Army & Navy observers by a Toledoan, Bert Naseef, cousin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak. Invented by one B. J. Augustine, built by Champion Rotary Motors Co. of Buffalo for which Bert Naseef is test pilot, the engine has but 20 moving parts, all enclosed; only 241 parts in all, compared with about 4,000 in the average airplane engine. Eliminated are valves, springs, push rods, timing gears, oil pumps, oil lines...
Haled into a Los Angeles court to explain a debt of $292.10, huge Jess Willard, onetime heavyweight boxing champion, told a municipal referee that he was working for about $15 a week as a bouncer in a meat market he once owned. He had himself photographed ejecting a tiny newshawk. Later he confessed: "That's all a joke about my being a bouncer. There's nothing to bounce around here except pieces of meat. I'm manager here. . . . Can't tell you my salary but it's a lot more than $15 weekly. Why that...
...minutes later ex-Champion Leonard, his hair smooth again, was congratulating his master, grinning about the $15,-ooo (plus $30,000 he had made during his 14-month "comeback") he would take home to his mother, whom he once promised that he would never fight again...
Died- John Charles Linthicum. 65, U. S. Representative from Maryland, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the unofficial Democratic "beer bloc"; of diabetes; in Baltimore. An infrequent speaker in the House, he was a champion of "The Star-Spangled Banner," officially adopted as the national anthem in March...