Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training camp at Pompton Lakes, N. J., where Champion Joe Louis was training for his fight with Welshman Tommy Farr, went his conqueror, onetime Champion Max Schmeling...
...year since she lost the U. S. singles championship to Alice Marble, had dislocated her thumb, torn a shoulder ligament and banged her knee with a racket. But pretty Kay Stammers was not feeling in top form either and she was the mainstay of the British (Wimbledon Champion Dorothy Round stayed at home). In the first day's play at Forest Hills last week, Alice Marble beat Ruth Mary Hardwick, Helen Jacobs beat Kay Stammers and Sarah Palfrey Fabyan & Alice Marble won a doubles match from Evelyn Dearman & Joan Ingram. With seven matches scheduled and the U. S. leading...
...lefthanders, played a slam-bang game as though she were tossing off an easy victory, but lost to Miss Marble, 6-3, 6-1. In the same sort of match, twinkle-toed Sarah Palfrey Fabyan in her well-bred fashion beat left-handed Margot Lumb, English squash racquets champion. For the last doubles match Captain Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, the Cup's sturdy donor who still: plays capable tennis herself, substituted chubby Dorothy May Sutton Bundy for Miss Jacobs, who had done enough for one day. Miss Bundy, daughter of onetime (1904) U. S. Champion May Sutton, squealed, giggled, sprawled...
...University of Minnesota. Runner-up Kenneth Richardson, 12, of Detroit and John Sigmans, 12, of Bethlehem, Pa., who came in third, each won a Chevrolet coach which they are too young legally to operate. Coaster Ballard then went on to win another silver trophy by defeating the foreign champion, 16-year-old Danie Wege of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in the international event. His record heat...
...Reidsville, N. C., the latest sport is rolling-pin throwing contests. Target is a dummy with a bull's-eye drawn on it. Unofficial champion is Mrs. Frank Christian...