Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staged in Yankee Stadium its third international meet between selected U. S. Golden Glovers and eleven topnotch Italian amateurs. Cabled Il Duce: "Be tenacious, sporty and sprightly. . . ." In flocked some 55,000 fight fans, an estimated 70% of them Italian, began booing when Gavino Matta, Italy's flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight, who floored courageous Federico Cortonesi three times before the referee intervened in the second round. Otherwise Italian honor was dutifully upheld as Italy...
After receiving a prize as "best-dressed" golfer at the tournament, Snead started out early the last afternoon needing a 71 for 283. When he got it and walked into the locker room he was congratulated as the new champion. Then word came in that, though Dudley, Cooper and Thomson had passed out of the picture, and Cruickshank was safely behind at 285, curly-haired Guldahl was burning up the first nine...
...Springs, W. Va., playing in his first Open, lived up to all advance notices with a 69 (three under par) for his first round. Made after a shaky start in which he was two over par on the first four holes, he shared the lead with P. G. A. Champion Denny Shute...
...innumerable unimportant rounds, he had invariably avoided. Bert McDowell, an able amateur from Baton Rouge, knocked three balls into the lake on the 16th hole, took three putts for an n, posted a 91, high score for the first day. Young Frank Strafaci of Brooklyn, 1935 Public Links champion, hit the flag on the third and missed a hole-in-one by a hair...
...professional in the land. Golfer Thomson arrived at the 17th green needing a par and a birdie for a 64, by two strokes the lowest Open score on record. He then missed a 2-ft. putt by inches, missed another on the 18th, took a 66. Meantime the defending champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen was restoring himself momentarily to a contending position with a 69 after a first round 78 and, as anticipated, Guldahl, Snead, Big Ed Dudley and British-born Harry Cooper, who has twice turned out to be runner...