Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, ex-light-heavyweight champion turned actor, paid $10 in Chicago for speeding, but he felt put upon. "Everything was going O.K. until the cop found out who I was," he complained. "Then he took advantage of my stupidity...
...next-to-last stop on the tournament line. There the National Doubles Championships were at stake. The goal they were all shooting for-the U.S. Singles-begins this week at Forest Hills. The big names: 1) skyscraping Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon winner; 2) solemn Frank Parker, the U.S. champion; 3) brilliant but unpredictable ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer; 4) jugeared Bill Talbert, best of the wartime tournament regulars. Among the women, there was one whose name led all the rest-California's Pauline Betz...
...tennis-conscious Rollins College, played No. 4 on the men's team and got enough As in the classroom to earn a scholarship in economics at Columbia. She didn't like Manhattan's weather, and quit Columbia after six months. At 23 she was national champion...
...Face. Last fall, after three years as national champion, Pauline Betz had her first major setback, from 33-year-old Sarah Palfrey Cooke, who came out of retirement to tournament play. Sarah took the crown away from Pauline at Forest Hills...
Opposed by Lindley Burton '42 3G, and Robert Sadove '43 1G, the winning pair walked off with the honors in two fast sets with scores of 6-4, 6-2. Fox is also the University singles champion...