Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route to a Los Angeles exhibition match against Ellsworth Vines, Amateur Champion Tennist Donald Budge fell asleep at the wheel of his auto, ten miles north of Bakersfield, Calif. The car bumped off the road, careened across a five-foot ditch, turned over three times, came to rest on the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Tennist Budge clambered out of the wreck with a few cuts on his face and bruises on his ribs, flagged a motorist to take him to Bakersfield...
...Michigan. Michigan even goes a step farther by having a Vassar, and completes the story with the following towns (see Rand McNally World Atlas): McBrides, Romeo, Elsie, Eureka, Waltz, Chase, Halfway, Rapid City, Twining, Blissfield, Climax, Liberty, Alaska, Maybee, Union City, Paines, Kawkawlin, Paw Paw, Richville, Cadillac, Lawrence, Princeton, Champion, Battle Creek, Bad Axe, Onaway, and Farwell...
Today Leverett and Kirkland square off in a clash which should go a long way toward determining the 1937 champion. The other bout finds Dunster facing Dudley in a collar battle...
Billed as "champion" since she threw Topeka's Barbara Ware in 1932, Sister Mortensen wrestles three or four times a week, has netted $37,000 since her present tour began four months ago. Showmanship of her manager, Bill Lewis, is such that he grew a set of silky black whiskers in order to name himself "Bluebeard...
...Bobby Jones, so it was slow to take up football, did not break into the big time until nearly twelve years ago, but then proved its mettle. The break can be dated from New Year's Day 1926, when the University of Washington, Pacific Coast Conference champion, invited what it considered the best team in the U. S. (outside the Conference) to play in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses game. That was Alabama's Crimson Tide which in one of the most exciting second halves in Rose Bowl history won Coach Wade his first...