Word: champion
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More extraordinary than either Weaver or Lombardi is Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, 20-year-old rookie pitcher on last year's champion St. Louis Cardinals. Like loud Art ("the Great") Shires, last year's Washington and Chicago freak, Pitcher Dean self-consciously copies the manners of Author Ring Lardner's fictional rookie baseballers, causing his luggage to be emblazoned by complimentary legends and boasting "there ain't no one can touch me when I bear down." Pitcher Dean stated he would win 20 games...
...Chicago "Black Hawks": the second game of the Stanley Cup professional world championship hockey series, after 24 min. 50 sec. of overtime, from last year's world champion Montreal "Canadiens...
...powerful Christian-Socialist party of Monsignor Ignaz Seipel is opposed on principle to even economic union with Protestant Germany, the menacing reactions of France and Czechoslovakia produced an abrupt, startling result. For a few days at least almost the whole press got behind Austrian Foreign Minister Johann Schober, champion of the pact. He was able to talk big and bold. He threatened to appeal to the Hague Court...
...first encounter of the program Arthur Palaza battered G. C. Doyle '34 for two rounds until the bout was stopped. Since there were no other entrants in the 125-pound class, Palaza became champion by this victory. Ferguson won from F. P. Viviano 11, in the second about to gain the right to fight in the finals of the 145-pound class. Hines easily triumphed over E. M. Bullard 1G. B. to enter the final round of the 160-pound class in the third bout...
Encountering considerable opposition, Terres finally won from J. W. Bussey 21, and met Hines in the finals. G. R. Nawn '32, a runner-up last year and a champion the year before, fought an unsuccessful battle against Palaza for the right to enter the finals of the 145-pound class