Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, prematurely grey at 33, Willie Mosconi stepped nimbly about the curtain-enclosed arena in one corner of Bensinger's smoky pool parlor in Chicago. At stake: the world's pocket billiards (vulgarly pronounced pool) championship. His opponent and archenemy was Irving Crane, the champion, whose 33-year-old face was even sadder than Willie...
After eight days of play, when Willie had beaten Crane, 2,000 points to 916, a fan who tried to console the defeated champion was told: "I don't need your sympathy or advice...
...Varsity, currently sporting a five-game winning streak, will enter the climactic contest of the season on approximately even terms with the delegation from New Haven. Both teams have suffered their sole league loss at the hands of the champion Dartmouth squad and are now deadlocked in the second spot in the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League race with two wins apiece...
...best tournaments. Being taboo at the swank Los Angeles Tennis Club, he drifted over to the public park courts. Just the opposite of Pancho was Herbie Flam: he was hardworking, well-behaved and a model Jones boy. Under Jones's careful handling, Herbie Flam twice became national junior champion. Last week lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Pancho Gonzales wangled an invitation to play in the Southern California Championships and soon came face to face with Herbie Flam...
Cause & Effect. It all happened because Canada could not do enough for her little girl. Two months ago, when 18-year-old Barbara Ann came triumphantly home from Sweden as world's figure-skating champion, home-town Ottawa rolled out the royal carpet. The Governor General's Foot Guards Band played the music; Cabinet Ministers rallied round; kids were let out of school. Then His Worship, the Mayor, fumbled through his welcoming speech-and gave her the auto, the gift of her fellow citizens. Nobody complained at the time that amateurs were not supposed to accept shiny...