Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Fiore notched a meet and medium mark in the hammer throw, billed the afternoon's most exciting event. 194 ft., 11 in. toss provided the glamor, however, as Crimson captain Croasdale managed only a 177 ft., throw, and defending champion Bill did not compete because of a ankle...
...best event this afternoon looks like the hammer throw. John, Flore of Boston College, who recorded a toss over 190 ft. in the Penn Relays, will be a slight favorite over Crimson captain Art Croasdale and Northeastern's Bill Corsetti, the defending champion. Corsetti is currently hobbled by a sprained ankle and may not be in the best of form...
John Bakkensen and Bill Pfeiffer should take one-two in the discus, and Crimson teammate John Micketts will battle Wall-in and Flora for third position. The Crimson edge in the pole vault is not so wide. Dave Bell and George Winters, the indoor Greater Boston champion, have both cleared 13 ft--6 in. higher than B.U.'s Jeff Blatt and Northeastern's Ed Speath...
Died. Gretchen Merrill, 39, six-time (1943-48) U.S. women's figure-skating champion, a pretty blonde perfectionist who lost her chance to win a world title when the Olympics were suspended for twelve years during and after World War II and, when they resumed in 1948, finished a disappointing eighth, after which she retired from competition; in Windsor, Conn., where she had been under treatment for emotional problems for the last three years...
Died. Johnny Dundee, 71, onetime world featherweight boxing champion, the crowd-pleasing "Scotch Wop" (he grew up as Giuseppe Carrora in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen) who danced and jabbed his way through 321 professional bouts in 22 years, outpointing France's Eugene Criqui for the title in 1923, only to resign it one year later when he could no longer stay within the 126-lb. weight limit, finishing his career as a lightweight in 1932; of pneumonia; in East Orange...