Word: pion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week there were two championship fights - one won by the challenger, the other by the cham pion. Featherweight. In Hartford, Conn., a small ugly Jew, Louis ("Kid") Kaplan, champion, struck a small ugly Latin, Robert Garcia, chal lenger, in the ribs with his fist and knocked him down. The Italian got up. Kaplan administered a long left hook. The Italian fell down, got up. Kaplan applied an other left to the body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed...
...Fairfield (Conn.) Country Club ranged some pre-tournament mixed foursomes, wherein National Cham pion Edith Cummings, one-time Champions Glenna Collett (1922) and Marion Rollins (1921), and Mrs. Quentin Feitner, former Metropolitan champion (1920), reinforced by five bisques apiece, would tackle Champion Max Marston, onetime Champions Jess Sweetser (1922) and Francis Ouimet (1914), and French Champion John G. Anderson (all amateurs). Golden golf balls were dangled as prizes for the winning team...
Miss Wethered's victory over Miss Leitch was her fifth in eight matches. Her brother, Roger, is amateur cham pion of Great Britain. Other open championship notes...
Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player: "I told a London radio audience how I keep my stockings up in play, why I sometimes cry on the court, what it is like to be a cham pion at Wimbledon and what a false legend it is that depicts me as a slave of my father, who is really very kind and patient. 'How do I keep them up?' said I. 'I roll a piece of elastic around twice' ... 'I am laughed at that I cry. I do not, but I just have dust...