Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his defeat by Schmeling, Pugilist Louis regained prestige. Champion Braddock and his manager presently decided a bout with Louis might be more profitable than a bout with Schmeling. They signed a contract for that one also. The contracts were mutually exclusive but the ethics of pugilism are such that no one was much surprised at this nor by Champion Braddock's announcement that he had no intention of living up to his contract with Schmeling. Only unusual feature of the affair was the behavior of Pugilist Schmeling...
...Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Polish girl tennist: the St. George's Hill Championship; 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the final against U. S. Champion Alice Marble, for whom it was the third consecutive defeat in minor English tournaments the past month; at Weybridge, England...
Avenging their previous 11-5 defeat at the hands of the Jumbos, the Crimson nine, paced by the twirling of Slim Curtiss, staved off a last inning Tufts rally to emerge victorious from the enemy Oval 4-2 Saturday afternoon, disappointing the cheering Alumni Day crowd...
...Indians' ace hurler, Fred Bell, who has pitched five league encounters without defeat, is slated to start on the mound in the first game tomorrow. Opposing Bell will be Mitchell's top twirler, Ed Ingalls, with four victories and two defeats...
...Certainly the whispering campaign against him on this ground and the absurd charge, openly cartooned by such sheets as the KKKlannish Fellowship Forum (see cut), that he would "set up the Pope in the White House," earned for Al Smith a Catholic martyr's crown. Year after his defeat he received the University of Notre Dame's Laetare-Medal, an award seldom given a politician and the highest honor the Catholic Church in the U. S. can bestow upon a Catholic layman. At Castel Gandolfo last week arrived Al Smith, on the pilgrimage which every good Catholic hopes...