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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Hague, Mayor of Jersey City stood up to offer a resounding resolution which began by proposing "that we ... reaffirm our unanimous and unfaltering loyalty to our great President" and ended with a tribute to "the leader whose match less courage and faith in the people of our land has given the world an example of pure devotion to public duty and genius in statesmanship that will cause to stand out in the annals of humanity the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt!" Less quick-witted than usual, Boss Farley called for a vote on the resolution. To the mortification...
...title against all fly-by-nights who wish to grapple. Last week at Holyoke, Mass, the champion stepped into the ring for a bout with an obscure challenger named Judson. Before the fun started, a wild-eyed French-Canadian, named Yvon Robert, who had persistently but unsuccessfully sought a match with O'Mahoney, was called into the ring, introduced to the customers. Suddenly Yvon Robert stripped off overcoat, sweater, trousers, tried to pin O'Mahoney then & there. Dragged away, Wrestler Robert sat at the ringside, heckled the champion who was downing Judson with ease. O'Mahoney, stung...
Almost since tennis started, there have been professional teachers. Yet professional tennis, as a game, did not really get under way until 1926, when Charle's C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle induced famed Suzanne Lenglen to sign a contract for exhibition matches. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, professional tennis began its tenth season. A crowd of 15,000 watched leggy Ellsworth Vines beat handsome, lethargic Lester Stoefen 6-2, 6-2. William Tatem Tilden II, now in his sixth season as a professional and no longer a star attraction, gave expression to his egotistic dissatisfaction with...
...Forty-eight-year-old William F. ("Willie") Hoppe, grey-haired boy wonder of Billiards in 1898, 15-time world champion at 18.2 balkline billiards, three-time champion at 18.1 balkline billiards, current cushion caroms champion, in a challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since...
Although the time and place of the final deciding game have not yet been announced, they will be announced later. It is very probable that the winner will match sticks with the Yale Champions in the New haven Arena...