Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sportsman of the Year was certainly Golfer Gene Sarazen who by winning both the British and U. S. open championships came as close as any professional can to Robert Tyre Jones Jr.'s record in 1930. Yet Sarazen flubbed the Professional Championship, did not even qualify. Josef Paul Cuckoschay (Jack Sharkey) of Boston retrieved the world's heavyweight boxing championship for the U. S. from Germany's Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried Schmeling in a bout that satisfied few patrons. All-around athlete of 1932 was Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson of Dallas who scored more individual points...
...Museum's President Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her three children had presented the Tring collection as a memorial to their husband & father, the late Harry Payne Whitney.* It will be housed in the new Whitney Wing (now nearing completion), for which Sportsman Whitney left $750,000 and New York City added an equal amount. Many of the birds will eventually be mounted for public display, but most will be available and of interest only to scientists. Lord Rothschild specialized in rare and disappearing species, got among others a great auk, two Labrador ducks...
...table from him strode out on the Democratic stage, captured the convention, nominated his man for President, took over the national chairmanship, scrapped the fine Raskob machine and set his own running as the official party organization. These events had left Mr. Raskob not bitter-John Raskob is a sportsman -but chagrinned, dismayed, hurt. Since June he had kept his distance from Chairman Farley and the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...vivacious Pauline Morton Sabin, no less a partisan than Alfred Emanuel Smith had officiated at Candidate Whitney's political baptism. The first pitfall into which the candidate tumbled was admitting that he voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928. Son of the late sportsman Harry Payne Whitney, grandson of Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney is 33. He pulled bow oar on Yale's varsity crew, was sued for breach of promise by a dancer after graduation. Fie inherited over one-quarter of his father's $77,000,000 estate. He chairmans the boards of Pan American Airways...
Died. Harry C. James. 64. sportsman, naturalist, vice president of Denver National Bank, "Denver's most popular citizen"; near Morrison, Colo...