Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to be hot at ping-pong, start training on scotch and soda early in life," James M. Jacobson 1B, former national table tennis champion advised ping-pong hopefuls in an interview yesterday...
Dave Burt will play number one for Harvard against Carl Rood. George Lowman will face Bob Strain, tennis champion of the southern college. Hubert Houk will play for the crimson against Johnny Foreman a consistent point winner for the Tar Heels during the past two and a half years...
That the World Champion Yankees (odds-on favorites to win the American League Pennant again this year) would welcome their No. 1 slugger, was demonstrated during the first week of the new season. In a four-game series with the Boston Red Sox (a pre-season 20-to-1 shot), the famed, hard-hitting Yankees had ignominiously lost three games, including a two-hit shutout. Mighty Lou Gehrig had failed to get even one piddling...
...London suburb last week, on the eve of his 70th birthday, Scotsman Sandy Herd, onetime (1902) British Open golf champion, became the hero of the $5,000 Rickmansworth Open, when he scored a 67, six under par, in the second round. His 30 for the first nine holes set a new record for major British tournaments, but Oldster Herd had to be content with 19th place (288) at the end of the tournament...
Sued for divorce. John Hope Doeg, 29, kin of the famed tennis-playing Bundys and onetime (1930) national tennis singles champion; by Dorothea Scudder Doeg; in Trenton. N. J. Grounds: cruelty...