Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy Mother was termed by Senators and Representatives "the so-called Virgin Mary." Last week the Congress added insult to injury by voting unanimously to change the names of two Mexico City suburbs. San Angel became Obregon, Congress substituting for the "Holy Angel" one-armed General Alvaro Obregon, famed champion of the Revolution and one of the most popular presidents Mexico has ever had, who was assassinated in San Angel by a religious fanatic in 1928. The suburb Guadalupe-Hidalgo (a double-barreled name recalling both the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, and Father Miguel Hidalgo, a priest...
...last tour, organized by Sportswriter Fred Lieb of the New York Evening Post, ended last fortnight when a team including Pitcher Grove, Leftfielder Simmons and Catcher Cochrane of the Philadelphia Athletics, First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees, Captain Frank Frisch of the world's champion St. Louis Cardinals, and Shortstop Walter ("Rabbit") Maranville of the Boston Braves, docked at San Francisco. They had played 17 games in Japan, won them all, been seen by 500,000 people. Last week, when he reached his home in The Bronx, where his mother often frys eels...
...Centre Fielder John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals; for his performance in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics: an Associated Press poll of experts on "the outstanding individual achievement in sports." Second was U. S. Tennis Champion Ellsworth Vines. ¶Primo Camera, gargantuan Italian pugilist: a judgment for $63,017 against his midget Anglo-French manager, Leon See; for moneys which Camera had earned in what most U. S. experts considered fraudulent boxing exhibitions and which, according to Camera, See had invested, without his permission, in fraudulent gold mine stock...
Because pool is a name associated with back-alleys and furtive gambling, pool champions, when they play each other, have a more elaborate designation for their game-pocket billiards. For the first time in many years there were more than eight players in the world's championship pocket billiards tournament which ended in Philadelphia last week. Several of the twelve were ex-champions but the pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office...
...Jameson of Yale and T. R. Schoomaker '12, have charge of the tournament and F. J. Marshall. United States Champion, will be referee. Play will begin at the Marshall Chess Club at 1 o'clock. The time limit will be 18 an hour...