Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gene Sarazen got 141 and three other U. S. players equaled par with 142, which none of the Britons could do. Alf Padgham, defending champion, shot a 78 and a 74. With the weather bonny the next day, Padgham and Reginald Whitcombe turned in 723 for the first 18 holes of championship play, but easy-going Ed Dudley of Philadelphia passed them with a 70, followed by Denny Shute, twice U. S. professional champion, with a 73. In the second round, with only a light easterly breeze, the competition grew keener. For Great Britain, Reginald Whitcombe scored...
Three days after Carnoustie, Champion Cotton met U. S. Professional Champion Denny Shute at Walton Heath, Surrey, for a $2,500 prize and "the world's championship" in 72 holes of match play. For two rounds Shute almost held his own, finishing the 36th hole 2 down, 72-72 v. 71-70. Then his wood game cracked while Cotton plodded grimly, steadily on, carding a brilliant 69 for the third round and spinning along at 2 under par when he finished the match, 6 and 5 at the 67th hole. Cotton got $2,000, Shute...
...somewhat unfeminine exterior, Jaja did the unthinkable. The match, as ragged a women's final as Wimbledon had seen since the War, proceeded as though each contestant, far below her best form, were trying to give points to the other. When it finally ended, Dorothy Round, champion in 1934, was champion again...
Most likely immediate prospects were an August bout between Louis and Jack Doyle, a September bout between Braddock, with whom Promoter Jacobs also has an exclusive contract, and Max Baer. While the confusion about his ring activities continued. Champion Louis went home to visit his mother in Detroit where he got a report that his father, a onetime Alabama cotton picker, missing for the last 22 years and long given up for dead, had been discovered in the Alabama State Asylum, where he had been since 1915. one year after Joe Louis' birth. Said Champion Louis...
...Champion Braddock's share was 50% of the gross receipts after State and Federal taxes had been deducted. Of his original $300,000, Braddock had to give half to his longtime manager, Joe Gould, who pays training expenses. Of his remaining $150,000 almost half went for taxes, $15,000 more to settle a debt with Promoter Jacobs...