Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caption under the picture of T. R. is most significant. T. R. in his autobiography says. "I forget whether I got into the finals or semifinals." Your line reads as follows, "As he recalled it he was champion." This brings up an old and unfortunate controversy in about the year 1910 to 1912. The writer took a small part in the newspaper discussion: many others disputed and argued. All the writer adduced was to give the name of actual winners for all the terms T. R. was in college, namely: Hanks (over Roosevelt), Fred Sharow, George Heilbron...
Biographer Pringle cites as his source p. 4 of Roosevelt, the Story of a Friendship (Macmillan, 1930) by Mr. Spalding's Classmate Owen Wister. Biographer Pringle was not aware Classmate Wister stood corrected. For the statement that Roosevelt at one time thought he had been champion, Biographer Pringle refers to the legislative scrapbooks at the Roosevelt Memorial Association...
Norwood Penrose Hallowell Jr. of Readville, was elected Second Marshal. He was captain of this year's Cross Country team, which won the Intercollegiate meet in New York recently, and is the Intercollegiate Champion for one mile run. He is a member of the Student Council...
Beckman Pool '32, state and intercollegiate Squash Racquets champion, added another championship to his rapidly mounting string on Sunday, when he won the Gold Racquets tournament at Cedarhurat, Long Island. This tournament, held every year at the Rockaway Hunting Club, is one of the more important ones of the season, many of the leading players of the country competing...
...Iselin, he had a close five game match with Perry Pease of the New York Tennis and Racquet Club earlier in the tournament. Iselin entered the finals by defeating George D. Debovoise '26 in a close match, 17-14, 18-14, 15-13, having defeated the present National Champion, J. L. Pool '28, Beckman Pool's brother, on Saturday...