Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week 18,000 fight fans witnessed one of the most exciting stretch finishes they could remember. Onetime World Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock had entered the ring an 8-to-5 underdog in a ten-round bout with Welshman Tommy Farr, British heavyweight champion. For eight rounds Jim Braddock did nothing to belie the betting public's estimation of him. Then suddenly, in the ninth round, the 32-year-old "Cinderella Man," who came off Relief three years ago to win the world championship from Max Baer and then lost...
...answer: a rabbit's-foot charm and a painted horseshoe. To his merry, milling admirers he explained that the horseshoe had been presented to him just before the fight by John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, onetime intermediary in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, who had received it from onetime World Champion Bob Fitzsimmons, who had fashioned it with his own hands in 1896. "And," added Braddock, "it's been lucky ever since...
Four Harvard hurdlers competed in their event Saturday night. Roger Schafer '41, and Sherman Hoar '40 were put out in their trial heats running against intercollegiate champion Jack Donovan and world champion Sam Allen respectively. Mason Fernald '40 was second in his trial heat, and was put out in the first heat of the semi-finals, but likewise failed to service the semi-finals. In the finals Olympic winner Forest (Spect) by Donovan of Dartmouth. Big disappointment of this event was Sam Allen, last in the finals...
Massanutten Military Academy, of Woodstock, Virginia, in 1936 National Preparatory School Champion and winner of 42 meets in four years, as against two losers, is regarded as a strong contender for the dethroning of Tome School, last year's meet winner. Andover, Exeter, and Worcester are also expected to be in the running for team honors, Exeter having the largest delegation, 20, of all the competitors...
High scorers of the current major-league professional hockey season are the Boston Bruins, with a total of 32 points in 23 games. Low scorers are the World Champion Detroit Red Wings, with a total of 13 points in 25 games-an average of a little over a point a week...