Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have been surprised last week when, at the close of the winter circuit, the Professional Golfers Association announced the top money-winners of the season. Leading the field for the second year in a row was British-born Harry Cooper of Chicopee, Mass., never yet Open champion but generally considered the most expert golfer...
Born in Turkey, of Greek and Armenian parents, Albert Isaac Bezzerides reached the U. S. when he was nine months old, grew up on his father's farm near Fresno, was a champion quarter-miler in high school. Unable to pronounce his name ("Buzz-air-uh-dees"), his schoolmates called him Buzzard's Knees. He won a scholarship to the University of California, quit in disgust three months before graduation. Then he settled down to truck driving. When he got married he began to write. Prodded on by his wife, he began selling stories to Story, Scribner...
...regulations granted the major "P" only to men winning individual intercollegiate or N.C.A.A. championships, or to any man winning a place in a majority of league meets as a member of a league champion team, or to any man who has established an accepted world's record, either alone or as a member of a relay team...
Dell's announcement also provided for recognition of outstanding Freshman swimmers. The first-year man may win major numerals by placing first or second in all dual meets, in addition to the previous method of belonging to a Freshman intercollegiate champion relay team...
Since retiring from boxing seven years ago, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, former world heavyweight champion, has given his name to a Manhattan restaurant and bar, a hotel in Miami, a chocolate bar, a whiskey. Last week he gave it to Jack Dempsey's Sports Magazine. Wrote Editor Dempsey: "Hello, folks! Well, here it is. ... There never will be any dirt or filth in the pages of this magazine. Sports are essentially healthy and clean...