Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play major-league baseball, are not tolerated in bigtime tournaments of the U. S. Golf Association or the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association.† They have their own American League and National League, their own All-Star baseball game. They have their own national golf association, which puts on championship matches. But at no sport are they more firmly organized than at tennis. For 23 years U. S. Negroes have banded together in the American Tennis Association, which not only serves as the governing body of 150 Negro clubs and 25,000 players but also gives upper-crust Negro doctors...
...radio crackling. By the time the Manhattan docked and Mr. Brundage had made good his threat, factions in the athletic world were divided in partisan schisms. Eleanor was thoroughly sore and dejected. In her suitcase she had a $1,000-a-week theatre contract contingent on her winning another championship. Then she got off the boat to find herself besieged with theatre offers, among them one from Loew's State promising $3,500 a week...
...student at The Bronx Public School 44, he made the track team by learning to jump the gun without detection. After he won a shorthand championship with a broken finger by ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries...
...Saginaw, Mich. dressmaker, Bill Watson-who is earning his way through college by waiting on table and acting as secretary to Prize Fighter Joe Louis-is considered the best all-round track man in the U. S. Besides winning the Big Ten championship in the shot put, broad jump and discus three years in a row, he has cleared the high jump at 6 ft. 5 ¾ in., has run 100 yd. in 10.1 sec., 440 yd. in 55 sec. If he can brush up on the pole vault, javelin, high hurdles and the 1,500-meter...
...Cale Young Rice won a roller-skating championship. At 16 he captained an undefeated baseball team. Says he: "I am sure these small triumphs served to strengthen the muscles of my will for the long climb to poetic goals. . . ." Poet Rice's story of his climb up Parnassus has as many alibis as there were slips on its slopes. Thus his attempts eo crash Broadway with verse dramas were steady failures because of "resentment against the frequently made assertion that I was 'America's foremost poet...