Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First U.S. prizefighter to compete for the world's heavyweight championship was a Negro named Tom Molineaux. A Virginia slave whose master freed him for knocking out the bully of a neighboring plantation, Molineaux went to England in 1810, fought famed Tom Cribb, gave him a severe thrashing for 30 rounds. In the 31st round, Molineaux fractured his skull against a ring post, lost the fight. Cribb beat him again before a crowd of 40,000 in 1811. The black fisticuffer was found dead in an Irish army barracks...
...year-old California girl named Marjorie Gladman watched with interest her first tennis match. She thought it "an awfully nice game," coaxed her father for a racket. Four years later, under famed Coach Mercer Beasley, she wielded it with such proficiency that she won the National Girls' Championship. In 1928 she met John Van Ryn who, just out of Princeton, was winning recognition on the courts as a "giant-killer." By talking shop at tournament after tournament, they became fond of each other. In 1930 they were married...
Waldemar Z. Wysocki '38, a member of last year's Freshman boxing and football teams, won the University Intramural Boxing Championship yesterday afternoon at the Indoor Athletic Building by winning the heavyweight title from Harry Marvin-Smith...
Better known for his exploits on the gridiron, Jackson played the number four position on the victorious Cowles' court team which netted the collegiate title this year. Members also won both the National Championship and the Intercollegiate Championship...
Captain Charles Palmer, Crimson polo coach, has filed a protest about the championship game Class B League play-off on Saturday night between the Jayvees and the Cavalry in which the college riders were nosed...