Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the firm impression that Homer Martin was scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this to his immediate superior by telephone, the underling was connected by mistake with Homer Martin. Leaping from bed the young U. A. W. president, a onetime national hop, step & jump champion, taxied to the Fisher plant, there to face the men who had threatened to turn a fire hose on him if he stuck his head in the gate. At the end of an hour and twenty minutes' palaver President Martin emerged unscathed, the rebels trailing behind him to announce...
...Oregon turkey not affected by the boycott was Norbest II, selected last week at Salt Lake City as national champion and destined for President Roosevelt's table...
...South open championship two youngsters fought it out on the third and final day: Dutch Harrison, Mississippi open champion after four years of tournament play, and Henry Clay Poe, 22, one-time Duke University golfer who had just turned pro. At the end of the outward nine holes Youngster Poe led Harrison, 37 to 39. Square at the 15th, Harrison was one stroke behind at the 16th. But the pressure was too much for Youngster Poe. On the par four 18th he hooked his drive and came off with a five. Harrison shot a birdie three, winning $250 first money...
...January blizzard raging in their samovar. For Emile Allais, who last February at Chamonix won the International Ski Federation's World Championship by taking firsts in the slalom and downhill races, laid down a new and highly controversial rule for skiing. All skiing turns should be abandoned, said Champion Allais, excepting the pure Christiania and the parallel Christiania. The French Ski Federation heartily concurred with its champion and, when his Le Ski Français was published last week at Bellegarde, a small town in France, the Federation promptly adopted it as the official method of teaching Frenchmen...
...pocket billiards (vulgarly called "pool"), pale, dark-haired Ralph Greenleaf ranks about tops, has been champion most of the time for 15 years. Last week in Philadelphia Billiardist Greenleaf and lantern-jawed Billiardist Irving Crane each had eight victories and three defeats after a three weeks' tournament among twelve top-ranking players. In the eleventh inning of the playoff, Crane, having scratched five times, found himself with a total of minus one to Greenleaf's 49. Then Billiardist Greenleaf strode to the table and started sinking balls so fast that one had scarcely thudded into a pocket before...