Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Manager Stewart had accomplished was reminiscent of the famed feat of Baseball Manager George Stallings, who in 1914 led the Boston Braves from last place in mid-July to a pennant and world championship in October. But Bill Stewart's achievement was in some ways even more remarkable, because: 1) he had led his team to a world championship in his first year as a hockey manager; 2) although a longtime hockey referee, he had never played the game except on Boston frog ponds, had never coached except at polite New England schools (including Radcliffe...
...Schmeling, 32-year-old German heavyweight contender: a technical knockout over obscure 24-year-old Steve Dudas of Edgewater, N. J., after flooring him seven times; in the fifth round of a scheduled 15-round boxing match, his last tune-up before meeting Joe Louis for the world championship in June; before 23,000 Nazi fight fans: at Hamburg, Germany...
...team match consists of five singles. The dormitories have been grouped into two leagues with Straus, Matthews, and Wigglesworth in one, and Thayer, Weld Hollis, and Grays in the other. There will be a championship play-off between the winners of the two leagues on Tuesday...
Baldish, 33-year-old Harry Cooper has a past-performance chart that dates back to 1927. That was the year he lost the U. S. Open championship to one-eyed Tommy Armour by the slim margin of a 15-ft. putt. For the past five years he has maintained a scoring average that no U. S. pro could equal: he has never finished lower than fourth in annual scoring. Last year his form sheet* revealed that his 1937 average-in 82 rounds of competition-was 71.62 strokes per round (better than even fours, which is considered perfect golf), that...
Eighteen years after a storm of controversy was aroused over his championship of the policemen in the Boston police strike of 1920 and the epithet "Bolshevik" was hurled at his head, Harold J. Laski, former lecturer and tutor in the department of History, Government and Economics, urged socialism as a means of preventing "a new and dark age," in a Ford Hall Forum lecture last night...