Word: champ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best team last week was Soichi Sakamoto's Hawaii University Swim Club (TIME, July 29), which picked up right where it left off in 1941. Led by sprint champ Bill Smith, it swept the meet easily...
...sixth annual carnival-tournament, flamboyant Promoter May drew the biggest crowds ever to see a golf tournament. They saw Herman Barren 36, a stocky, swarthy veteran from White Plains, N.Y., score an 8-under-par 280 to beat the big names. It was worth $10.500. Ellsworth Vines, ex-tennis champ who turned to golf in 1940 because he considered it less monotonous, came his closest yet to winning a major tournament, taking the $4,325 second money with a 281. Vines was one of twelve pros who refused to wear an identification number; if he had worn one like...
...play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting Frank Kovacs, who sometimes tries to outrage his opponents into bad playing, almost came to blows with Welby Van Horn, the defending champ...
...Eiffel Tower still stood above the Champ de Mars, and the Mediterranean Sea, unmoved by apocalyptic whips, still gently lapped Riviera beaches. But Frenchmen felt that it had been a close call...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., ABC). Lightweight title bout between Champ Bob Montgomery and Challenger Allie Stolz...