Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ranji" was champion cricket batsman for All England, scoring 2,780 runs with an average of 59.91 -figures which Englishmen still ad mire. Today the "Ranji" cricket tradition is carried on by his nephew Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji who, as the Cricketers' Almanac for 1930 observes, "if not so famous as his renowned uncle ... is ... one of the great batsmen of the younger generation. . . . Like his uncle he possesses a remarkable eye and a pair of most supple wrists...
...oldtime Palmer House. Onetime office-devil of his father's country newspaper at Lapeer, Mich., Adman Kudner has been a concert singer, police reporter, magazine contributor, versifier, political writer. Framed over his desk is his favorite definition of advertising, a quotation from Fred Patzel, 1926 World Champion Hog Caller: "You've got to have appeal as well as power in your voice. You've got to con-.vince the hogs you have something for them...
...useful to another who can be more useful. Inevitably this involves to some extent the faculty of forgetting those who have been useful in the past, but sometimes a fighter's past catches up with him. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight champion of the world, defended himself against a suit brought by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, sports promoter, for approximately $500.000 back pay. Day by day the testimony showed the intricate process by which champions are made...
...that certain Manhattan politicians owned shares in Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight contender. The New York State Boxing Commission had decreed that Dempsey must fight Wills before fighting anyone else. Meanwhile the late Tex Rickard was trying to arrange for Tunney to fight Dempsey. He was telling Tunney that the champion was sick, weak, "full of boils," telling Dempsey that Tunney would be an easier match than Wills; telling both to keep quiet about what he told them. At last the Tunney-Dempsey fight was arranged in Philadelphia and Tunney won the title. Then came further services from Agent Mara...
...victory over what is probably the worst football team that has ever represented Princeton. Midwest. Captain Hank Bruder and Fullback Reb Russell took turns carrying the ball and gained 364 yards, made 16 first downs against Indiana, won 25 to 0? a game that makes Northwestern potential Big Ten champion. Playing intersectionally, Wisconsin and Minnesota won their games. Ohio State, completing its own passes and intercepting all others it saw around, took Navy into port, 27 to o. Michigan's passes beat Harvard's attempts at field goals, 6 to 3. Notre Dame. In a class by itself, this amazing...