Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...befits the No. 1 idol of U. S. youth, Autry does not drink or smoke. He lives with his pretty wife on a ten-acre "ranch" in San Fernando Valley, where he stables "Champion" and his five other less famed horses. Last year sales of Autry's phonograph records equaled those of Bing Crosby's. A manufacturer who set up a line of toy revolvers modeled on the one he carries sold 100,000 in three weeks...
...year ago no two horse-racing enthusiasts could agree whether War Admiral or Seabiscuit was the No. 1 thoroughbred of 1937. Temperamental War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts (including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), was champion of the three-year-olds and the darling of the tracks because of his spectacular habit of getting in front at the start and staying there. Even-tempered, hardy Seabiscuit, a year older and graduated from the three-year-old class into the more difficult handicap class, was champion of his division (eleven victories in 15 starts), was the No. 1 money...
Because the Law School's Chancery Club defeated the Sink A. C. yesterday, 48 to 12, in touch football, they will, as champion Law team, meet the crack Business School aggregation next week. At the same time, the winners of the inter-House touch crown will meet the top School of Education squad soon, and the winners of the two games are to play for the mythical championship of Harvard University...
...slightly favored Kirkland eleven takes the field against Winthrop this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock, at Soldiers Field, in a playoff battle to determine the 1938 House grid champion. The winners will play the Yale House champions this Friday on Soldiers Field...
Dudley, last year's champion, is dead-locked with the Elephants for first place in the House touch football league with Kirkland and Lowell tied for second...