Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wednesday Night Fights (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Lightweight Champion Wallace Smith v. New Orleans' Joe Brown...
...piece together a coherent story of how, aided by two brothers named Tchaikovsky, she had been carried out of the cellar and across Russia into Rumania. No Tchaikovsky ever showed up to verify the tale, though "Anastasia" claimed to have married one of them. She found many friends to champion her cause, even after one enterprising German journalist discovered that a Polish girl named Franziska Schanzkowsky had disappeared from a Berlin boarding house shortly before the young woman's discovery in the canal, and suggested that she was the same girl...
Still, at Christchurch last week, Ken tried again, and with desperate brilliance, pulled out a match, 2-6, 8-10, 6-3, 6-3, 9-7. It was only the second time in nine matches that Rosewall had won-a disquieting pro debut for World Champion Gonzales' latest high-paid ($65,000 plus) victim, but not a cause for despair. "Ken is only 22," said Pancho. "He will not be at his best until...
...Davis Cup triumph, Australians and New Zealanders could be forgiven the notion that tennis down under is the best in the world. Then the pros came to town, and local pride went back into the marsupial pouch. Aussie Ken Rosewall hardly belonged on the court with Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales...
...where it hurt, Gonzales went to work to overcome his love of calories, late hours and long snoozes. He practiced hard, played his way back up to the salary scale, last year made $40,000 for demoralizing ex-Wimbledon and ex-U.S. Champion Tony Trabert, 74 matches to 27. He pushed his game to such a high peak that when Kramer tried to talk Australian Lew Hoad into turning pro this year, Hoad snapped back: "I don't think I'm ready. Pancho probably would chew...