Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago when the top-ranking tennis players of the world assembled at Wimbledon for the 58th All-England championships, most international of all tournaments, the spotlight played on the distaff side. So completely has California's red-haired Donald Budge dominated men's tennis in the past year that no one mentioned the possibility of his defeat. But for women it promised to be the greatest championship in Wimbledon's history...
Except for England's No. 1 Dorothy Round Little, whose recent marriage prevented her from defending the championship, all the best women tennists were entered: Chile's Anita Lizana (U. S. champion), France's Simone Mathieu (French champion), California's Dorothy Bundy (Australian champion), Poland's Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska (last year's runner-up at Wimbledon), Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, California's Alice Marble, Helen Jacobs and Helen Wills Moody. Of the two most famed rivals, Helen Jacobs, out of recent competition because of an injured shoulder, was not even seeded...
...blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically realized that they had to get a whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket...
...Golfer Ralph Guldahl, winner of the U. S. Open fortnight ago: the Western Open championship, second ranking open tournament in the country; for the third year in a row; with a score of 279, including a six-under-par 65 on the last round; at the Westwood Country Club, St. Louis. Runner-up was Sam Snead with 286. Champion Guldahl is the first golfer in the 38-year history of the event to win the title three times in succession...
Meanwhile Harvey Love's championship Freshman boat was improving every day and rated a sure winning berth over their Blue opponents. Undefeated so far, the Yardlings are the only oarsmen who have come within a half-length of the Varsity this season...