Word: champ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golf. Apart from such purely technical skills, little Ben Hogan is the fiercest competitor in the game. With his relentless training schedule and assembly-line precision, Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world. Any man who outscores the champ more than once this year will have to have most of the same qualities, because machine-like Golfer Hogan rarely has a bad day, rarely plays two bad holes...
Since pro football has no world series, there was no decisive way of proving which league had the champingest champ. But most fans agreed that Brown's Browns, who have been champions ever since the All-America Conference was started, were the tops in pro football...
...boxing, there weren't four heavyweights worth Joe Louis' time to lay them out. But last week, with much pomp & ceremony, four hopeful heavyweights climbed into prize rings to fight for the right to face the aging champ next June...
...made 178-lb. Ezzard Charles, by default, the most probable candidate to fight Joe Louis. But after the fight, Ezz seemed hone too eager to claim his newly won privilege. "My goodness, not yet," he said. "I'd have to be a lot sharper if I fought the champ." Besides, who was he to give his hero the last shove? "He's still the greatest," said Ezz. "I want him to retire undefeated...
...dozen fencers don't get glory, but they like the quick, fast game that always keeps them on their tees. They also can get some good laughs out of the movies. For fencing isn't the brassy, horeic sport of technicolor films, and not even Peroy--an Olympic champ--would try to hold off the French Army with one saber and some balsa-weed chairs...