Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these up-&-coming pugilists are at least two years away from heavyweight championship calibre. In the meantime, in order to give customers their money's worth, one sportswriter suggested that Black-jack Joe take on all current contenders-Lou Nova, Max Baer, Bob Pastor, Tony Galento-in one evening, one at a time, like a barfly's dream...
...John Henry Lewis, just seven days older but three years wiser in ring experience, is one of the most skilful boxers in the business. He had been defeated only seven times in 99 fights, had never been knocked out, and had successfully defended his world's light-heavyweight championship against all comers the past three years...
After watching the wild men from the hills of Hanover trim our football team for the past few years, beat us in basketball, and grab the 1938 baseball championship from under our noses, it gives as great glee to see what happened to the Wearers of the Green last Saturday. First of all, the Indians were scalped in a skiing meet by the University of New Hampshire at a winter carnival in Durham, which isn't as serious as it seems because some of the Hanoverians were away at the Maine meet in Rumford. Then from New Haven we received...
...rowing is the installment of a new streamlined crew machine which pushes the water past the stationary oarsmen at the rate of five miles per hour, an increase of three miles per hour, over the old gasoline engine which has put so many former Harvard rowing "greats" into championship form...
...Louis v. John Henry Lewis (Wed. 10 p. m. NBC), all-Negro heavyweight championship fight. Blow-by-blow report by Clem McCarthy and Edwin C. Hill...