Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Netherlands' girl athletes have not yet outclassed the U. S. in events which require grace as well as brawn. Bright blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill last week retained her title at platform diving. Springboard diving championship went to Marjorie Gestring, 13-year-old Los Angeles schoolgirl...
Because her work as a designer of women's underclothes takes all her time, Tennist Helen Wills Moody announced that she would not play in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I. next month. Thus she avoided another battle in her feud with Tennist Helen Hull Jacobs. Said Mrs. Moody: "I am not giving up tennis. But in the future I shall play only in tournaments that fit in well with my work." Up for auction in Denver came the last tawdry possessions of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe Tabor, who was frozen to death last year...
...like progress but not too much of it, and that much not too fast. Those moderates, he warns, are in sympathy with most of the New Deal aims. He himself likes its tariff policies, its securities and stock exchange regulation, its bank deposit insurance, its handling of strikes and championship of Labor. He approves of public works, regulation of public utilities (including government "yardsticks"), easy farm and home credit and a more equitable distribution of the nation's wealth. Strong for social security, he considers the New Deal's system unjust and impracticable, dislikes its "spendthrift generosity...
Last summer Buell Patrick Abbott won the Western Public Links championship, last winter outplayed top-notch U. S. professionals when he took the Southern California Open. His career in cinema stood still...
Last week at Farmingdale, N. Y., Buell Patrick Abbott won the public links championship of the U. S., 4 & 3, against a Washington, D. C. haberdasher named Claude Rippy. Now such a famed golfer that caddies asked for his autograph, he revealed his plans: to return to Hollywood, resume work as an extra...