Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnny Longden of Calgary, Canada, and 24-year-old Johnny Adams of Tola, Kans. led the field in a neck & neck race for the jockey championship of the year. Solemn, sharp-faced Jockey Longden was in front with 222 winners; jolly pink-faced Jockey Adams, last year's champion, close behind with 208. Both were racing at the Tanforan track outside San Francisco, riding six or seven mounts a day, and flying down to Mexico for Sunday racing at Agua Caliente in their attempt to chalk up the most winners by December...
...Meredith '42 followed the tradition of his father, a former Crimson star and Olympic champion, when he sprinted to win the 300 yard run by a good five yards, after trailing only 20 yards from the tape. Meredith's time was 35:2. Fred Ulen '39 and Holmes of the Huskies were clocked...
Miss Henie had little encouragement for hopeful college skaters. "You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion," she said. "It takes too much time, too much training." Miss Honic started cutting figures on the ice when she was six years old and has hardly been off the ice since...
Although Miss Benie called her work as a movie star much harder than that as an Olympic champion, she declared that after cash number of her snow she felt as if she were "coming out of a Turkish bath." In fact she complained of being in continuous hurry and dash: at 3 o'clock Monday morning she will leave Boston after 37 shows in 40days. "And then a five day rest,--think goodness!" Miss Henie sighed, and dimpled. She expected to spend most of this time in the arms of Morpheus--god of sleep...
Paced by Henry Kelly, Last year's 145-pound University boxing champion, who won his match by a technical knockout, Eliot's maulers out socked Lowell to gain a 3 to 2 victory in the first inter-House boxing tournament yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building...