1930's Sports | People in the News

Henry Armstrong won the world lightweight champion-ship on 17 August 1938 to add to his welterweight and featherweight titles; he was thus the first man to hold championships in three different weight divisions at once.

James "Cool Papa" Bell of the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the Negro Leagues from 1933-1937, called the fastest base runner in the history of baseball, stole 175 bases in 1933.

Middle-distance runner Bill Bonthron, one of the great milers of the 1930s, won the title Amateur Athlete of the Year in 1934, the same year he set a world record in the 1500-meter.

In 1935 Frank Boucher, center for the New York Rangers hockey team, won his seventh Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in eight years as the league's most gentlemanly player.

On 13 June 1935 James J. Braddock, a 10—1 underdog, defeated Max Baer for the heavyweight title in a fifteen-round decision before 35,000 fans at the...