Word: champs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chess tournament closed, Dr. Lasker, the German, was the only player who had not once been defeated. The Russian, Alekhine, had won in as many games but had lost one. The championship appeared to lie between these two men and Reti of Czecho-Slovakia and Capablanca of Cuba, present champ. The two Americans (Ed. Lasker of Chicago and Frank Marshall of New York) stood at the bottom of the list, save one. At the very bottom was Englishman Yates...
Luis Angel Firpo, heavyweight boxing champ of South America, and Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champ of Europe, decided to have a fight at the Football Stadium in Buenos Aires. Benito Mussolini cabled Spalla: "Keep the Italian colors aloft." Thirty thousand Argentinians went out to see the fight. The fighters hit each other for 13 and a fraction rounds, until finally only Firpo hit Spalla, and Spalla sank by the ropes, and they counted...
...seat in the House which fell vacant with the death of H. Garland Dupre (TIME, Mar. 3). Thomson is a name known in New Orleans, because James M. Thomson is publisher of The Item. Mrs. Thomson is his wife. But the whole country knows the name of the late Champ Clark. Mrs. Thomson is his daughter...
...Angeles, Gene Sarazen, U. S. professional golf champ, bested Arthur Gladstone Havers, British open champ, for the so-called "unofficial professional championship of the world...
Erminio Spalla, European heavyweight champ, sailed from Milan to meet Firpo at Buenos Aires. Spalla won his championship title last summer from Vandeveer, a Dutchman. At the time, Dr. Benito Mussolini saluted Spalla thus: "I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...