Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Wallace Mcllvaine Scudder, 77, founder and publisher since 1883 of the Newark, N. J. Evening News, philanthropist, onetime engineer, attorney, grandfather of Dorothea Scudder who married U. S. Tennis Champion John Hope Doeg last month (TIME, Feb. 9); of heart disease; in Newark. A liberal, non-partisan journalist who built up his paper's influence by the force of his own personality, he was a relic of journalism's "old school": Whitelaw Reid, Charles Anderson Dana, Joseph Pulitzer, Henry Watterson, James Gordon Bennett...
...yard back stroke swim--Won by Champion (Y); second, Budziman (Y); third, A. J. Bohm (H). Time...
Tilden. Last week in Madison Square Garden William Tatem Tilden II played his first tennis as a professional. On the other side' of the net was brown, wiry Karel Kozeluh who has often been professional champion of the world and was runner-up to Vincent Richards for this title last summer. Often have tennis-lovers predicted that Kozeluh could take the measure of anyone in the game. He was steadier, a stone wall; professionals had never been given a chance to show what they could do. Amazed, they watched Tilden whack his cannonball serve across so hard that...
...absence. Weber. Orlando Franklin Weber is an impressive man. Six feet tall, massive, he has the poise of the physically strong and the alertness of the mentally agile. He likes to go to prizefights and he smokes big black cigars. Other businessmen fear him as sparring partners fear a champion. He is thought of as implacable-and fair. Mr. Weber's life has been as reticent as that of his company. He lives quietly, refuses to be photographed, has never made a public statement beyond that which the annual report of his company demands. In 1916 he left...
...convincing victories over the Canadian teams, especially MgGill, have proved that Coach Stubbs has assembled together one of the best Harvard hockey combinations in recent years and all signs point to a triumph for the Crimson six in the series. To the winner will go the title of mythical champion of North America, since Harvard just recently defeated McGill, who had won the Canadian title from Toronto...