Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a cat-like grin and a big serve, Schroeder easily dusted off his first three Forest Hills opponents last week. He was clearly pleased at being seeded No. 1 in the tournament, over young (21) up & coming Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, the defending champion; there were moments when it seemed that Schroeder's big reason for entering the big show was to prove to several old adversaries (including Billy Talbert, Frank Parker and Pancho) that he was still boss...
...quarterfinals, his relaxation was almost too good. He found himself in a dog-eat-dog match with rosy-cheeked Frank Sedgman, the 21-year-old Australian singles champion. It took five sets and some energetic net-rushing to subdue Sedgman, 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4. Meanwhile, the other players that Schroeder wanted to meet were progressing nicely. In the opposite bracket, Parker and Gonzales fought through to the semifinals. Schroeder's semifinals foe was sophisticated, crewcut Billy Talbert. Billy, a diabetic sentenced to daily insulin doses, got off to a quick lead, but Schroeder...
...hours after the 210 top amateur golfers s"et out to decide who would be U.S. champion for 1949, the tournament came to a water-logged stop. Rain beat down on Rochester's Oak Hill course. When play was resumed, it was too dark for Ted Bishop, the 1946 champion, to complete his first-round match-and he bowed early next morning to a Denver schoolteacher named John Kraft...
...Champion. A glossy, sardonic portrait of a middleweight champ, with Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
...them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted its feeblest champion...