Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after a year of extravagant ballyhoo on the part of his manager, shrewd Oldtimer Joe Jacobs, Two-Ton Tony (weight 233!) was given his chance against the best prizefighter in the world, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Not in years had a world's championship heavyweight match been given such a jocular press. Boxing experts noted that 29-year-old Galento had been around for eleven years, had been defeated 22 times, was a slow-moving human tub whose boxing technique consisted of roughhouse butting, wrestling, sticking thumbs in opponents' eyes. They agreed that the little...
However, there was always a chance that a miracle might happen, and what a laugh it would be if a barkeep who trained on hops and did his roadwork in a Chevrolet were to win the world's heavyweight championship! So, one moonlit night last week, largely out of sardonic curiosity, 35,000 fight fans turned up in New York City's Yankee Stadium. No miracle happened. But ringsiders had to admit that no one since Max Schmeling in 1936 had got into a ring with Joe Louis with less fear...
Another 1939 lawn favorite is croquet, staging a comeback along with other Victorian fashions. Among U. S. croquet players: Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Socialite Mrs. Margaret Emerson, whose Port Washington estate is the scene of the annual Long Island croquet championship, Novelists Charles and Kathleen Norris, whose summer place is virtually built around a croquet court, Poloist John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Social Cynosure Herbert Bayard Swope, who plays very solemn croquet with Broadway celebrities at his Long Island home, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according...
...England's national croquet championship is now held at Roehampton...
...German exile Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the London Grass Courts tennis championship, No. 1 tune-up for this week's All-England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory since he was imprisoned by the Nazis for moral turpitude over a year ago. In the semifinals, the onetime German Davis Cupper, now living in Sweden, trounced Bobby Riggs, No. 1 U. S. amateur, 6-0, 6-1. Said Donald Budge, who was among the spectators: "I think Germany made...