Word: champion
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...week's meet, the Sokols and Turners outnumbered all other entries. For the fourth year, the Philadelphia Turners' chunky, bespectacled Pearl Nightingale flew off with the women's all-round championship. Only on the balance beam, where contestants go through nerve-racking slow-motion acrobatics, was Champion Nightingale bested by any rival. The men's all-round title went to stocky little Arthur Pitt of the Swiss Gymnastic Society of Union City...
...camp in South Africa's Transvaal, two Italian soldiers last week fought a rousing ten-round battle for the welterweight championship of the crumbling Italian Empire. One was Gino Verdinelli, winner of the national welterweight tournament held in Rome in 1940. The other was Giovanni Manca, 1941 welterweight champion of the Italian Empire. For a purse, Italian officers had contributed ?100 (around $400) from their prison earnings. For a referee they chose a South African: popular, pint-sized Captain T. St. John Dean...
After the match, Winner (on points) Manca was offered a match with South African Welterweight Champion Lieut. Laurie Stevens, stationed at nearby Pretoria. Manca accepted, with one stipulation: half the proceeds must go to Italian prisoners of war in South Africa, half to South African prisoners in Italy...
Willo Fisher, IC4A hammer throw champion, wrapped up that event with a heave of 155 feet but was beaten by Exeter's Lovell in the discus throw...
...classes calls for three games to be played each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday night. The senior teams will play two round robins and then a play-off between the winning teams of each round. If one team wins both round it will be declared the class champion. The junior teams will play one round a robin and the winning team of that round will play the winning senior team for the school championship on May 21st. TEAM STANDING As of April 23 Won Lost Percent. Class D 2 0 1,000 Class B 1 1 .500 Class...