Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...archer a handicap and beaten him. Indian procedure in bow & arrow hunting was to stalk a quarry until practically on top of it instead of depending on long distance marksmanship. When each of the 106 ablest bowmen in the U. S. had shot his 468 arrows, Russ Hoogerhyde was champion again, 2,865 to 2,599 for Ed Pikula of Cleveland...
Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champion, Ed Dudley, and Tony Manero, U. S. Open champion in 1936. Their statements...
Engaged-Norman Selby ("Kid Mc-Coy"), 63, onetime (1896-97) welterweight champion of the world; to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 43, cousin of Humorist Irvin S. Cobb; in Detroit. This will be his ninth marriage. In 1933 Selby was paroled from San Quentin Penitentiary in the custody of Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motors Co., after serving seven years for the murder of his mistress. This year he was given a full pardon, is now head of Ford's Garden Department, in charge of 15,000 employes' gardens...
...revolving doors," giving fellow newshawks such Indian-style nicknames as Captain-in-Case-of-War Perkins. He is "a Protestant in politics and a Democrat in religion," lives in Hamburg, N. Y., is descended from a onetime heavyweight champion of the Erie Canal...
Seeking divorce. Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody, eight-time U. S. women's tennis champion, from Frederick Shander Moody Jr., San Francisco goodfellow; in Reno. They were married Dec. 23, 1929. Her statement: "I wouldn't go so far as to say there isn't another man in my life...