Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph Guldahl, burly Chicago professional golfer, this year's National Open champion: the Western Open championship, defeating Horton Smith by four strokes in an 18-hole playoff; at Cleveland...
...lavishly, by "Mitch." If victorious, they as Conservatives ought to honor the torn-up power contracts-but they dare not promise that, since it would up electricity costs to Ontario voters. As Conservatives they ought to balance the budget-but "Mitch" already has. Again as Conservatives they can hardly champion the C. I. O. against Premier Hepburn yet, ludicrously enough, since "Mitch" has made C. I. O. what is supposed to be the main issue of Ontario's campaign, the Conservatives were valiantly trying last week to straddle on this and put themselves forward as Labor's friends...
...Forest Hills, L. I. last week the U. S. women's singles championship went not to a dark horse but to what the horse world calls a sleeper, i.e., one whose victory comes as a great surprise to all save the very sophisticated. Last year's Champion Alice Marble, who was scheduled to meet Poland's hefty Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska in the final, was instead put out in the quarter-finals by Dorothy May Bundy. Chubby Miss Bundy, who resembles her famed tennis-playing mother May Sutton (U. S. champion 1904, and Wimbledon champion 1905, 1907), more...
...sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after being photographed with her first U. S. championship cup, first won by a foreigner since Betty Nuthall did it in 1930, little (5 ft.) Champion Lizana swooned away...
...second 440-yd. championship with a U. S. and meet record of 4 min. 46 sec., setting along the course a new 300 yd. U. S. record of 3 min. 14.2 sec.; his second 880-yd. championship in 10 min. 19.2 sec.: in Chicago. Backstroke Champion Adolph Kiefer lowered his own meet record in the 100-meter championship...