Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived to take over, she found the humorist encamped in his disputed office, determined to stay there until his term expired in 1942. One-legged Mr. Scully had fortified his position with 300-lb. Pete Ladjimi, who once served 30 days for assault & battery upon the person of ex-Champion Wrestler Gus Sonnenberg...
...athlete in the U. S. At Gary's Horace Mann High, he twice was named All-State quarterback, was the country's leading interscholastic football scorer (150 points) in 1936, was captain of the basketball team, pitched three no-hit, no-run games one spring, was State champion at the 100-yd. dash (9.9 sec.) and still holds the Indiana record (22.6 sec.) for the 200-yd. low hurdles...
Minnesota, last year's champion, has its usual big boys in the backfield, but its line is weak. Therefore brilliant Bernie Bierman, winner of four Big Ten titles and three mythical U. S. championships in the seven years he has been coach at Minnesota, must be content to sit this one out. Already, perennially mighty Minne sota has lost two, tied...
...most fans above the Mason-Dixon line, Tennessee has always been considered minor league -just hillbilly stuff. Last year, when the unheralded boys from the Smokies burned up the Southeastern Conference,* won all ten games on their schedule (rolling up 276 points) and then drubbed undefeated Oklahoma, Big Six champion, in the Orange Bowl, even boarding-school girls in New England became aware that Tennessee could play football...
...Lanky Ellsworth Vines, 28, of Pasadena: the 13th annual tournament of the U. S. Professional Tennis Association (in which were entered all the top-ranking U. S. pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20-18; in the movie set setting of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, at Beverly Hills, Calif. Star attraction of the tournament was greying, still garrulous Bill Tilden, who, in his first appearance on a U. S. tennis court in almost three years, demonstrated that he still has the most formidable...