Word: champion
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Come anything short of a Jap invasion, there will be a Rose Bowl game at Pasadena this year. But it may be shorn of geographical significance. The Pacific Coast Conference, Rose Bowl host, automatically picks its own conference champion (probably Washington State this year) to represent the West. But this year's present two top-ranking Eastern teams-Georgia Tech and Boston College-hail from some 3,000 miles away and may not be permitted to travel across the continent just to make a football holiday. Possible alternate: the University of Tulsa...
...featherweight boxing championship; dethroning cagey, aging Chalky Wright of Los Angeles after a 15-rounder that drew a crowd of 19,000 (and a $71,000 gate); at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Pep, who has won 54 fights in a row, is the third featherweight champion to come from Hartford. His predecessors: "Kid" Kaplan and "Bat" Battalino...
...lean and tangy meat, Jimmy was then the smallest boy in school, and so he had to try to lick all the other boys. At high school (Los Angeles Manual Arts) and college (U. of California's School of Mines) he was successively bantam, welter and middleweight boxing champion...
...Newark's curly-haired Allie Stolz and Harlem's kinky-haired Beau Jack, fighting it out in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, for a fling at the world's lightweight title. The title had, as a matter of fact, been abandoned that very day by Champion Sammy Angott-supposedly because of a badly battered hand...
Died. Joseph Francis Anthony Hagan ("Philadelphia Jack O'Brien"), 64, light-heavyweight champion of the early 1900s; after a prostate operation; in Manhattan. He lost his ring fortune speculating in real estate, turned to bodybuilding, ran famed gyms in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Unknown in the U.S., he went to the British Isles in 1900, knocked out the British heavyweight and middleweight champs, came home in 1902 with a mighty reputation, a small fortune, 18 trunks, 72 sets of red-and-blue silk underwear, a top hat, frock coat, and a rococo vocabulary. He won the light-heavyweight championship from...