Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large wad. And next evening, on a coal barge, or in some lot at the edge of town, the two ruffians met and battered each other with bare fists until one of them fell down. To the man left standing the bartender handed the the wad. Thus were championship prize fights arranged, conducted, once upon a time. And now for many weeks the premonitory rumbles of a new fight have muttered through the land. All very courteous, to be sure. The party of the first part, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, the party of the second part, James J. Tunney...
After a week of tense tennis, the finals of New Brunswick's championship tournament were reached, at Fredericton. Out of one bracket emerged Mrs. H. R. Babbitt; out of the other bracket, Miss Isobell Babbitt, Mrs. Babbitt's daughter. With the assurance of a parent and of a onetime All-Canadian Maritime Province and Provincial champion,* Mrs. Babbitt rolled up points; the first set was hers, 6-3. Her blood fired with youth's impatience, Miss Babbitt rallied to win the second set, 6-1. Nor did she pause at that. It was Mrs. Babbitt, ding, Miss...
...Cherokee, Iowa, where he used to teach high school and coach a championship football team, David Wallace Stewart, recently nominated by Republicans and appointed by Governor Hammill to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Cummins (TIME, Aug. 9, THE CONGRESS), made his first political blurb at an annual homecoming. He "deplored sectionalism and provincialism"; he said, "I shall fight with all the power that I have to advance, protect and maintain the best interests of the state of Iowa." (Cheers...
...Lenglen in their one-set match at Forest Hills. They repeated it when, in 1923, Mrs. Mallory lost her title, after a redoubtable struggle, to Miss Wills (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923.) And they reiterated it last week when Mrs. Mallory had eliminated Helen Wills from the New York State championship at Eye. It was Helen Wills second defeat in eight days. She spent her energy early-in the first set, the only set she won. The court was like an oven, but Helen Wills was cool. She has never, since the days when she wore pigtails, appeared anything else...
...Victoria! After all, mused many a scientist, is not Edward, spontaneous sponsor of such vivid fashions as green leather coats, more admirable than his ramrod-backed great-grandpapa, creator of that appalling garment, the "Prince Albert?" Prince Consort Albert, needless to relate, deserved well of Science by his indefatigable championship of the Great Exposition of 1851 against the opposition of both the Lords and Commons, and his employment of its surplus profit of ?150,000 to found the present Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. Throughout his life he exhibited a passion for developing British industry which vented itself even...