Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic children. Once an able athlete (in 1906 he pitched for St. Viator's College a no-hit, no-run game against Illinois, Big Ten baseball champion that season), he has seen his CYO boys' boxing teams ("The Bishop's K.O. Boys") win the Chicago Golden Gloves tournament every year since...
...leaguer), 119 strikeouts in 149 innings (36 more than his nearest rival). Last year Feller won 17 games and lost eleven. Last week even the most conservative prognosticator predicted that the 20-year-old, $20,000-a-year Indian, who has only recently stopped calling his teammates "Mister," will win 25 games this year (some...
Nelson, a 27-year-old Texan, was trying to add the P.G.A. (match play) championship to the National Open (medal play) championship he won last month and thus become the only professional golfer besides Gene Sarazen to win the two major U. S. titles in one year. Picard, 31-year-old New Englander, had never won a major U. S. tournament although he has long been considered one of the game's best shotmakers...
...without her skates. Judging from the acting Trudi Hovland does before her glass with heavy dramatic lines like "Let me go, Aye tall yu," this ambition will take some realizing. But so have all Sonja Henie's ambitions. And as she herself has remarked: "Most always I win...
...cracked out his 416th home run, Bobby Jones won his third national amateur championship and Jack Dempsey was training for a return match with Champion Gene Tunney. That year a brown-eyed little Norwegian girl named Sonja Henie, having won her first world's championship, was about to win her first Olympic crown. For the comparatively few who took an interest in skating, she was the most famous woman skater in the world...