Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally on the tenth try DeSota, 6-to-5 favorite, got away in front, with last year's two-year-old champion Twilight Song and Tobaccoman William N. Reynolds' Schnapps just behind. Twilight Song broke her gait at the first turn. By the time E. Roland Harriman's Farr had taken the lead in the back stretch, the crowd of 35,000 was on its feet, cheering one of the quickest-stepping fields ever seen in a Hambletonian. Then one horse began to pull away from the ruck. It was not, as many hoped, favorite DeSota...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago...
...time he was 13, already holding a responsible job in a spinning-mill, towheaded, quick-witted, Yorkshire-stubborn Herrie Champion was well convinced that he was going to be a great painter. Encouraged in this ambition by his widowed mother, Herrie also got an encouraging word from the millowner's wife. The first complication was the millowner's disgust when Herrie joined his fellow-workers on strike. In the starvation-haunted months before the workers were beaten, Herrie reciprocated that disgust, discovered the bitter source of such humor as: "Nay, you don't have to bring...
...Howard's four-year-old Seabiscuit, 1937 handicap champion, ridden by Jockey Johnny Pollard: the $70,000 Massachusetts Handicap, richest horse race of the summer; setting a new track record (1 min. 49 sec.) for a mile and an eighth and boosting his season's winnings to $142,000; at Suffolk Downs, Boston...
...Robert Riggs, 19-year-old Californian: the 47th annual Meadow Club tennis tournament ; by default, when his final-round opponent, Japanese Champion Jiro Yamagishi, quit because of a strained shoulder; at Southampton, L. I. For Riggs it was the third match he had won by default in eight days, having so defeated onetime Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood in the quarter-finals two days before and onetime U. S. Champion Wilmer Allison in the final of the Seabright tournament week before...