Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes. Best individual shot among the Treasury's men was an affable, red-faced Scotsman, Lee E. Echols, inspector at the New York Customs Bureau. Last week he let smugglers know how dangerous life can be by shooting 299 out of a possible 300 to defend his individual championship. He also shot a 296 and two perfect 300s, led his five-man Bureau of Customs team to win the Morgenthau Trophy for the third year. Most of the shooting was done with .38-calibre revolvers with 4-in. barrels, slow and quick fire at 15 and 25 yards...
...dawn last week, Golfer Ferebee teed up on Olympia's tough No. 4 course (which has plagued many a famed professional during championship tournaments), scampered down the dewy fairway, accompanied by three spectators, a scorer, a doctor and three caddies-two to spot the balls and one to tote his bag, which contained 14 clubs, two extra pairs of shoes, orange juice, beer and candy bars...
...Detroit Tigers paid Connie Mack $100,000 for Mickey Cochrane, baseball's best catcher. In 1935, after he had led the Tigers to two successive American League pennants and the first world championship in its history, Catcher-Manager Mickey Cochrane became the hero of Detroit. In 1936, Manager Cochrane had a nervous breakdown, was away from the bench for six weeks. Last summer a pitched ball fractured his skull, ended his playing career. Last week, Mickey Cochrane, 35, reputedly the highest-salaried ($45,000 a year) manager in the game, was fired...
Furthermore, Pittsburgh's other Pirates, professional footballers, announced that they were headed for the championship of the National Football League this fall. Reason: Owner Art Rooney, whose hunches on horse races have brought him a fortune, had at long last succeeded in signing Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White, highest scorer (122 points) and most publicized player of last year's crop of college footballers...
...Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue). Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers defends his title against Welter and Featherweight Champion Henry Armstrong at Manhattan's Polo Grounds...