Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held the day's informal press conference. Next day Ambassador Robert W. Bingham, just back from London, lunched at Hyde Park. In the afternoon the President went to the Fair again, awarded a trophy, which he and Mrs. Roosevelt give each summer to the winner of the hunter championship, to Claredda Farm's handsome bay gelding Prince Charming...
...Championship, One of the most fiercely competitive of all games, amateur tennis has no international championship. To answer the constantly perplexing question as to who is the best amateur player in the world, the chief contenders must rely on meeting either in team play for the Davis Cup of in the grand tour's series of national championships. In the days when Tilden, Richards and Johnston were the world's three top-ranking players and the U. S. won the Davis Cup with monotonous regularity, the U. S. Singles was as great a championship as any tennist could...
...fight on points. The crowd of 50,000 in New York City's Yankee Stadium, amazed that Farr had not been knocked out or even knocked down booed the decision. But Negro Joe Louis, 23, made $75,000 and successfully if not brilliantly defended the heavyweight championship of the world which he won two months ago by knocking out James J Braddock (TIME, July 5). And Thomas George Paul John Farr, 23, who grew up as a colliery boy in Wales, who once was a "booth fighter" earning five shillings a week boxing with yokels at country fairs, earned...
...Frank Gray Carroll, 35-year-old hardware merchant of Brecksville, Ohio: the Grand American Handicap, trap-shooting's No. i event, with a score of 100 straight targets from the 19-yd. line; in his first championship tournament, upholding the tradition that an "unknown from nowhere'' usually wins the title, never held twice by the same person; at Vandalia, Ohio. Tied for second place were eleven gunners, who broke 99 out of 100, a score which would have been good enough to win 31 of the previous 37 annual tournaments...
...182Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm & Henner Henkel, playing their first tennis tournament on U. S. soil: the U. S. doubles championship, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, defeating Defending Champions Donald Budge & Gene Mako, who had beaten them in two previous encounters during the current season (Wimbledon semi-finals and Davis Cup interzone final); at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...