Word: champions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...multiple headdress, he tossed off the featherweight crown because he considered it too bothersome to get his weight down to the required maximum of 126 Ibs. Last week, before a crowd of 30,000 in New York's Yankee Stadium, another crown-the lightweight-toppled off when onetime Champion Lou Ambers (Luigi D'Ambrosio), whom he had dethroned a year ago, was awarded the nod in a 15-round match for the title...
After 15 rounds of tireless punching on both sides, Referee Arthur Donovan and the two judges agreed that Ambers had won. Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement. But some of the other spectators were not so pleased with the decision. Some thought Armstrong was robbed of victory by the referee who took away five rounds for low blows which looked like unavoidable and harmless borderline punches. Others thought Armstrong had thrown the fight (fouling Ambers deliberately). Big, bombastic Eddie Mead...
...York's Meadow Brook Club in 1895 a handful of U. S. "golf widows," clad in ground-sweeping skirts and cartwheel hats, staged a tournament to select a national women's golf champion. Best "golf-erine" of the day was Mrs. C. S. Brown of Shinnecock Hills who posted a score of 132 for the 18-hole, one-round tournament...
...football team was "Big Three" champion for the second straight year; the soccer team was Eastern Intercollegiate champion; the crows swept the Yale regatta for the second successive year and the varsity crew later won the Grand Challenge Cup in the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley, England...
...another in the final last week, Newcomer McDaniel and Oldtimer Weir, matching aggressive play with brilliant tactics, kept the partisan crowd of 1,500 in seesawing shrieks of delight and dismay before young McDaniel won the match and title, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Besieged by dusky damsels, Champion McDaniel was swept off the court, signed his autograph until his hand was numb. They all thought he was good enough to represent the U. S. on the Davis Cup team...