Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a dispatch received from Paul "Vermont" Tector '40, of Princeton, who saw Time magazine's reprint of the story on the Harvard Union ice-cream eating record, the title of David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41, as ice-cream champion of the Ivy circuit is contested. For Mitchell, who ate 18 dishes after a full meal and ran a cross country race the next day, yesterday received the following telegram...
...worthy of defending Princeton's honor by challenging you to an ice-cream consumption duel after the Harvard-Princeton football game next Saturday stop Since I am not a runner I suggest we play eighteen holes of golf before breakfast next morning stop Princeton hopes Harvard's ice-cream champion will not get cold feet." (Signed) Paul Vermont Tector...
...story is relatively unimportant, for the Ritzes dominate each individual with their energetic buffoonery. Fred Stone played well the only serious part in the movie as the football coach. Nat Pendleton, former Olympic wrestling champion, is good as the Indian who, off the football field, is pursued by corknerow-featured Joan Davis...
...Yankees, Cliff Melton for the Giants. This time the teams went on a home-run spree. In the second inning Yankee Outfielder Myril Hoag, who wears size 3½ shoes, cracked out a home run; and in the next inning Yankee Outfielder Joe Di Maggio, home-run champion of the major leagues, did likewise. Then Melvin Ott hit a homer for the Giants, brought in Dick Bartell to tie the score. In a fair way to lose his first Series game, Pitcher Gomez thereupon singled, scoring Tony Lazzeri, and a moment later crossed the plate on Lou Gehrig...
...Nearest approach to such championships are the point scores compiled annually by the Rodeo Association of America (which the Garden rodeos joined last year) on the basis of some 50 rodeos, including the famed contests at Cheyenne, Pendleton, Calgary and Salinas. But the World's Championship Rodeo is champion in one respect, drawing more first-rate performers than any single Western rodeo...