Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong and manufactures 640 other indoor games of which Mr. Parker person ally invented more than...
...Dorothy Locke, 20, of Brooklyn, who started fencing four years ago to improve her health: the U. S. women's fencing championship. In the final round-robin, in Manhattan, she beat Marion Lloyd, champion in 1928 and 1931, 5-to-4, won all four of her other matches...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., ninth ranking U. S. tennis player: the North & South championship; at Pinehurst, beating U. S. Champion Ellsworth Vines Jr. 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 5-7, 6-1 in the final...
...months ago Jerome Dunstan ("Jerry") Travers, U. S. amateur golf champion in 1907, 1908, 1912, 1913, U. S. open champion in 1915, sold his seat on the New York Cotton Exchange. With more time for golf, he found his game almost as good as of old, when he was famed for his putting and for playing a rusty old iron off the tee. Last week, like Bobby Jones and George Von Elm, Golfer Travers turned businessman golfer, announced himself willing to play exhibition matches for money but not to hire out as a professional teacher. His first exhibition, and first...
...celebrate the 25th year of his accession to the throne the Maharaja Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes and champion cricketer of India, gave his weight in silver to the poor of his realm. Dressed in full ancestral armor and anointed with sacred water from the Himalayas, the Jamsaheb weighed in at 174 Ib. After the silver distribution, 20,000 poor were...