Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chocolate cotton pickers from Riverside Plantation had come down to Vanceville to play the also-dark potato diggers of Sunny Side for the colored baseball championship of Bossier Parish...
...Baltimore raged a flagpole sitting craze for children. One "Azey" Foreman, 14, claimed a junior championship with a record of 10 days, 10 hr., 10 min., 10 sec. Soon rivals appeared. In a few days, 21 poles bore young perchers, applauded, tended, pointed out by ambitious parents. Unambitious parents had to watch their young to keep them from sneaking up telephone poles. Developments were rapid...
...beers in his club house. For $1, a golf non-clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. St. Louis. Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys. There were some low scores. In the qualifying round, Brooklyn's Henry Fabrizio took a 70, three others had 75 or better. Many were...
...large and brawny than thin and puny?but experience, reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception of World's Champion Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, all the international Masters were entered. Dr. Alekhine was a spectator; did not play because next month he has a world's championship match with E. D. Bogoljubow and did not wish to exert himself too strenuously. Challenger Bogoljubow, however, had no such inhibition...
...Master is a player who has won the championship of his country; a Grand Master one who has beaten others in international competition...