Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale University wants champion dogs for its Peabody Museum of Natural History. It wants champions of different breeds, dead from natural causes or by accident. Yale wants no dogs killed for the kudos of preservation in the museum...
...idea of the Yale dog champion collection is Leon Fradley Whitney's (TiME, Dec. 30, 1929). He, 37, started to be a farmer, changed to merchandising, has been since 1924 executive secretary of the American Eugenics Society. He lives in New Haven and has made an original study of certain genetic traits and the mating cycle in dogs. His collection's purpose is to leave bodily records of how current dog breeds looked, to furnish a record of canine evolution under man's guidance, to keep a place where people may go to learn to recognize the various breeds...
...Davis Cup matches by beating Sidney Wood and later Jean Borotra. Onetime ping-pong player, Perry learned his tennis on London public courts, considers travel the best way to improve it. In last week's doubles, Vines was paired with Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, national intercollegiate champion. Perry with George Patrick Hughes, his doubles partner on the British Davis Cup team. Defending champions were U. S. Singles Champion John Doeg and George Lott of Chicago...
...Myrtle Huddleston is the world's champion endurance swimmer among women. Five years ago. aged 30, she took her first swimming lesson. The next year she swam 36 miles across Catalina Channel in 20 hr., 42 min. She won the ocean championship at Del Ray Beach, Fla., in 1928. when she swam for 31 hr., 18 min. Since then. Mrs. Huddleston has been immersed in various bodies of water more frequently and for longer periods than anyone else of her sex. Most protracted was her sojourn in a Coney Island swimming pool which lasted...
...Steve Crothers, trapshooting champion of Pennsylvania: a shoot against the champions of 40 other states, the canal zone, and Alberta; by breaking 200 consecutive birds, as he had done in winning his state championship; at Vandalia, Ohio...