Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STATE COLLEGE, PENNA., March 25--Captain John Harkness '38, of the Crimson grapplers, Eastern Intercollegiate 175-pound mat champion, worked his way into the semi-finals of the N.C.A.A. wrestling championships by defeating Jim Taylor, Cornell College (Iowa) in the second round this afternoon and Wesley Leverich, Illinois, in the quarter-finals this evening...
...Stanford, winner of the Pacific Coast Conference. As champion of the Southern Division, Stanford last week met the Northern Division titleholder, Oregon, in a two-out-of-three-game play-off in San Francisco. It was San Francisco's first chance this season to see in action its native son, Stanford's phenomenal Angelo Henry ("Hank") Luisetti (TIME, Jan. 24). When Stanford completed its schedule last fortnight, Basketballer Luisetti in four years of play had scored 1,550 points-19 more than the previous all-time record, set in 1935 by Glen Roberts of Emory and Henry College...
...corner of the ring sat the buffoon of heavyweights, U. S. ex-Champion Max Baer, sometimes described as Madcap Max of the faint heart, now billed as attempting a serious comeback. In the other corner sat the heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Welshman Tommy Farr, loser to Joe Louis and Jim Braddock in his two U. S. fights, clumsy but courageous, now billed as the owner of a newly-developed punch. The odds were 2-to-1 on Farr, who had beaten Baer in London eleven months...
...heavyweight fights in recent years have brought forth so much wholehearted socking, done so much visible damage (see cut). It was Baer's lusty right against Farr's jabbing left. The Welshman landed oftener-and occasionally with a right that really bothered Baer-but when the former champion let loose, he came very near to ruining Farr. No one disputed Baer's victory; he was variously credited with from nine to 13 rounds. Surprising his critics by clowning only enough to please his more lighthearted fans, Baer also surprised the experts with his shrewd tactics: he repeatedly...
...veteran, Bill Robinson, through two simple tap routines, one to a pleasing tune called Toy Trumpet, she seems something more than a doll, something less than a little girl. Her singing, almost free now of the lilting lisp that has three times made her No. 1 Oh-&-Ah cinema champion (TIME, Jan. 3), sounds much like that of any little Sunday-morning radio aspirant...