Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally rated the world's No. 2 player, was kept at home by illness. That left the U. S. title apparently at the mercy of the world's No. 1, Fred Perry of England, who was also the only important foreigner entered. Perry's most serious rival was obviously California's red-haired Donald Budge, who may this year be ranked No. 3 on the international list...
...mile sprint around a ten-mile triangle, it is the only rival in popularity to the Bendix Race, which it last week paralleled in results almost completely. With the best U. S. pilots out because of their accidents in the Bendix, the Thompson was left to a parcel of minor U. S. racers, one foreign ace-France's huge, 31-year-old Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice...
...last month and went popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last winter...
Last week, this reputation was well sustained when the Chattanooga Free Press emerged from gangling adolescence as a full-fledged rival of Chattanooga's two established dailies-the morning Times and afternoon News...
...rapped out 43,000 strokes in 60 minutes. Subtracting 54 errors, he had averaged 135 words a minute, tying the all-time world record. Panting Peters, only two words a minute behind, got up gloomily, prepared to entrain for Toronto, where this week at the Canadian National Exhibition another rival international championship bout is to be held...