Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wood Jr.; strong, swart Francis X. Shields, 20. J. B. Adoue Jr. is the non-playing captain. He was picked because he is an experienced player and because he lives in Dallas, Tex., so that it will be easy and cheap for him to get to Mexico. National Champion John Doeg was not picked because he announced that he could not take time off from business (advertising) to play in Davis Cup matches this year...
Independent producers in the field denounce proration, as do lease-owners. A large group of them have retained onetime (1927-31) Governor Dan Moody as attorney, will seek an injunction against proration. A champion of these discontented forces is Carl L. Estes, editor of the Morning Telegraph and Courier-Times in Tyler, town of 17,113 (pre-boom figure) in the heart of the new field. He has written sharp editorials denouncing proration, caused mass-meetings to be held in almost all the new boomtowns. Nervous, crippled, Editor Estes is 33, has been in the newspaper business 17 years...
...face and was counted out. Like most cheap preliminaries, it was mediocre entertainment and the crowd booed. Unlike most cheap preliminaries, it was described at length in metropolitan sport pages, much discussed by prizefight enthusiasts. This was because the winner was Paul Berlenbach. onetime (1925-26) light heavyweight champion of the world. As many has-beens have done before him, but with more public sympathy than most. he was beginning to try to "come back." Berlenbach was a deaf mute until he was 14. Then a kite he was flying brushed against a high tension wire and the shock made...
Fire broke out suddenly in a famed U. S. kennel one night last week. It raced along the stalls of yapping, shrieking dogs, licked up the entire section especially reserved for champion show dogs, and subsided. When the smoke had cleared, a bewildered kennel-master once more counted his charges. Seventeen answered his call. Twenty-eight were dead...
...time of the fire the kennel not only owned about $100,000 worth of dogs, but it had acquired an enviable reputation in the prize-ring. Its world champion wire-haireds. Brandy Snap, Wycollar Wonder, Wycollar Diamond Merchant and Welwire Wildflower, each valued at about $4,000, were among the top dogs in American Kennel Club lists...