Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Johnson, first Negro heavyweight champion (1908-15); now 65, living in insecure comfort in Los Angeles. He went to court last week with his pretty white wife Irene, defeated his white landlady's attempt to evict them. Ebony-bald, plump but fit, he was smartly dressed, had a prosperous air, told reporters he was "retired...
...fight again?" But by last week he had staged an amazing upward climb: his eyes were healed, he had slimmed to fighting weight (138), won 16 of 18 comeback fights, defeated backsliding Fritzie Zivic and gained a crack at the big money - a fight with Lightweight Champion Beau Jack...
When the two fighters climbed into the Garden ring last week, Armstrong's comeback was already a success. Madison Square Garden was jammed and the gate was nearly $105,000, more than Armstrong ever drew there when he was a triple champion. Dusky Jack, obviously no calf-eyed pupil, pounced upon him with trip-hammer lefts and jolting right uppercuts. Armstrong just put his head down and bored in, soon made Jack back away, in the ninth and tenth rounds kept him well backed against the ropes...
Died. Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, 73, pioneer juvenile-court reformer, champion of companionate marriage; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In the flaming '20s, his companionate-marriage idea - essentially a proposal for an enlightened attitude on marriage - was sensationally publicized as everything from trial marriage to free love, once led to his ejection from Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when he shouted back at Bishop Manning, who had just assailed his "propaganda . . . in behalf of lewdness" from the pulpit. Soon after he reached the Denver bench 43 years ago, little Judge Lindsey started reforming...
...Elling had just capped his best year. His N.Y.U. team walked away with the Indoor Intercollegiates and captured the National A.A.U. championship, the first time a college team had turned the trick. Of the year's six outstanding track men, two-Dixon and Shotput Champion Bernie Mayer-were Von Elling's boys...