Word: champion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the Colorado State Athletic Commission decided to allow Lightweight Champion Joe Brown and Challenger Orlando Zulueta to use 6-oz. instead of 8-oz. gloves for their title tight in Denver, Zulueta's manager, Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman, screamed like a mink. Light gloves, insisted Hymie, were made to order for a slugger like Brown. They seemed to be. Brown waded into Zulueta's flicking jab for 13 rounds, then dropped him for a count of nine. The challenger went down again in the 15th, and Slugger Joe Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...
...after her 54th birthday, Glenna Collett Vare, six times women's amateur golf champion, played a 36-hole match with Rhode Island Champion Joan Bobel, 19, won two-and-one, and took back the state title she last held 36 years...
...there was grandfather Jimmy Demaret, 47. He finished the tournament at week's end with a fine 283 and figured he had it won. But he lost it all sitting in the clubhouse, waiting for the rest of the field. Dick Mayer, 34, former New York State amateur champion and now a Florida pro, finished with a fast 282. And Dick did not have it won either. Last year's winner, Dentist Gary Middlecoff, 36, of Memphis, Tenn., curled in a loft. putt for a birdie on the final hole, and forced a playoff...
...Letting San Francisco Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Eddie Lowery pay his way to a long list of amateur golf tournaments seemed all right to U.S. Amateur Champion Harvie Ward. Lowery was his boss, and Lowery told him, said Harvie, that it did not matter that the U.S. Golf Association had given him expense money too. The U.S.G.A. saw things somewhat differently. Last week it put Harvie on a year's probation for violating amateur ethics...
...usual manner, coach Harvey Love has shaken hs lineup quite a bit in attempting to find a winning combination to cope with a Yale boat which boasts five members of last years Olympic champion squad. Yale will be seeking its fourth straight win over the Crimson...