Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When U. S. Tennis Champion Donald Budge returned to the U. S. three weeks ago with three of this season's foreign tennis crowns (Australian, French, English) on his carroty head, he turned his thoughts to defense of the Davis Cup, scheduled for Labor Day weekend at Germantown, Pa. "If Australia beats Germany in the interzone final, I figure Adrian Quist and John Bromwich might be good for one victory apiece in the challenge round against us," said...
...more fatigued than if he had spent an evening at a Harlem shindig. He has fought on an average of twice a month in the past year, has knocked out 35 of his last 38 opponents. Most fight fans agreed that the little Iron Man would hammer Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers into submission in jig time...
...underdog, Champion Ambers in the early rounds did nothing to raise his reputation. Under a tattoo of blinding punches he crumpled to the canvas at the end of the fifth round. Saved by the bell, he came out for the sixth only to be knocked down again. But at the count of 8, just as the Garden spectators and millions of radio listeners were mentally collecting their bets, Underdog Ambers clambered to his feet...
...army in 1919, (he was a captain, 80th Infantry Division, A.E.F.), he had the nerve to write a letter to the then Chief of Staff, detailing what was wrong with the army and what to do about it. Fresh out of the University of Virginia (where he was champion wrestler and orator) he hung out his law shingle at Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1912. By 1917, he was Democratic floor leader of the State's House of Delegates, and was thinking of running for Governor. Back from the War, he went into partnership with seasoned Philip P. Steptoe...
Meanwhile, he studied at the New School for Social Research, was co-founder of a serious little magazine called the Economic Forum. During vacations he played in tennis tournaments, was good enough to enter the Nationals at Forest Hills. He also became "pitch-golf" champion of Broadway, saw every play. In his own plays, he admits sheepishly, he cannot make the women come alive...