Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pelota court is called. Kids clambered in the branches of chest nut trees to get a better view. This was the biggest pelota game of all: the championship match between a team led by Basque Idol Jean Urruty and a team headed by his closest competitor, Spanish Champion Valentin Careaga...
Among them: baseball's Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, golf's Ben Hogan, Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. But never has the myth been so effectively-and quickly-exploded as by Campy's game-winning homer...
...Hurricane" Jackson, who shuffled, jumped and jabbed his way to a unanimous decision. Explained Loser Charles: "I loafed." ¶ As the Davis Cup challenge round drew near (Aug. 26-28), the U.S. tennis team suffered what might be a crippling blow: 24-year-old Tony Trabert, French and Wimbledon champion, was out of action with a pulled shoulder muscle. Unless he recovers, his two erratic teammates, Vic Seixas and Hamilton Richardson, will have difficulty hanging on to the hard-won trophy. Both men were beaten in the Eastern Grass Court Championship tournament at South Orange...
...Filipino fight fans took exception to Featherweight Champion Sandy Sadler's rough-and-ready tactics in a nontitle fight with Manila favorite Flash Elorde. While Sandy was firing at Flash with head and elbow, the crowd was taking pot shots at the ring with stones and pop bottles. The referee penalized the champ so often for dirty fighting that Elorde had no trouble winning a unanimous decision...
...Swaps, the gallant California colt that upset Nashua in the Kentucky Derby, will get another crack at the Eastern champion. Running over the Derby distance (1¼ miles) and carrying Derby weight (126 Ibs.), the two thoroughbreds will meet in a match race at Chicago's Washington Park on August...