Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When vivacious Maribel Vinson, nine-time U. S. figure-skating champion, renounced her amateur status last autumn to tour the U. S. in a skating extravaganza called Gay Blades, the field she had overshadowed for so many years blossomed with new enthusiasm...
When the judges' decisions-tabulated, computed and checked by specially hired mathematicians-were announced, top score (521.6 points) went to long-legged, 16-year-old Joan Tozzer, last year's junior champion, daughter of Harvard's famed Anthropology Professor Alfred Marston Tozzer. But close on her white-shod heels (517.5 points) was vivacious, Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy) of Manhattan. So eager is Miss Peppe to follow the figure-eights of her aunt, Beatrix Loughran, who held the title in 1925-26-27, that she went abroad last summer to study under Sonja Henie's skating instructor...
...champion is blonde, naïve and nonchalant. Unlike petite Audrey Peppe, who at 6 learned the rudiments of figure skating under the tutelage of her famed aunt, Joan Tozzer is the only figure skater in her family. She learned her figures from Boston's Willie Frick, tutor of Maribel Vinson. Once a year, on Christmas Day, Joan Tozzer goes skating at the Boston Arena with her father, who cannot so much...
Last week oldsters rubbed their eyes when, picking up their morning papers, they read about Jim Lightbody winning a 600-yd. run and setting a new meet record. It was not triple-Olympic Champion Jim Lightbody. to be sure, but his son, a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore, running in the Quadrangular (Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell) Meet at Boston...
...straight games in the final, 15-6, 15-8, 15-4; in Manhattan. In two years of stiff competition, during which he has won the U.S. and Canadian Singles twice, the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament twice and the brand-new open competition for the Clarence Pell Cup, Champion Grant has not lost a match, has lost only four games...