Word: champs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoys his meal in leisure. Toward its close he rises to pay calls on half a dozen distinguished friends at neighboring tables. Here he speaks with a gentleman and his wife. They are perhaps Mr. and Mrs. James M. Thomson, son-in-law and daughter of the late Champ Clark. At another table, he pauses to chat with a handsome man in his fifties; certainly it is James W. Gerard. He returns to his table and sips his coffee...
...tore the heart out of Gardiner White of Nassau, whilom Metropolitan champion, argued well for his golf future. Howard Maxwell, onetime Long Island champ, also found he had strokes to spare when he competed with the cool-clever...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Quentin Romero, 196 pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...
...scheduled 20-round fight in Vienna between handsome Georges Carpentier, French heavyweight pugilist, and Arthur Townley, British light heavyweight champ, proved to be a dull, short, sharp affair...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay-"champ...