World's Champion Typist

George L. Hossfield & Julian Nelson.  Brief Typing.  Second Edition.
Baltimore:  The H.M. Rowe Company, 1962.

http://oztypewriter.blogspot.ca/2011/06/world-champion-typists-and-typewriting.html

Sadly, speed typing never became an Olympic sport.  Nevertheless, George Hossfield was still being remembered 40 years after his title fight, even if they originally got the spelling of his surname wrong.