Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beauty and Power. When fight time came. Rocky showed that he needed no help from either ring or rackets. With rough-and-tumble power, as clumsy as any champion since Camera, he took 8 rounds and 54 seconds to batter Cockell senseless. Then the British writers, who once upon a time were renowned for understatement, really turned it on. Their champion, taking a savage beating, had indeed met defeat like a true Briton. "And that is why the high and the mighty, the men with power, the women with beauty and vast possessions are rising in a kind of primeval...
...Marciano was crowding in now, head down like a gorilla, except that a gorilla does not eat meat, and Marciano is the most carnivorous fighter I have ever seen. Truly I do not exaggerate . . . The sun had set on the arena, but it had never set on the heavyweight champion of the Empire...
...spring of 1924, he was national light-car champion, and the days were not long enough for him to get all the racing he wanted. In his "Fronty" Ford, Shaw would race his buddies cross-country on their way to the dirt tracks where they earned their prize money. Evenings, they would celebrate. Dawn would find them racing home, their hopped-up engines shattering the morning silence, their hard tires (90 lbs. of air in motorcycle tires shellacked to the wheel rims) jolting along rutted country roads...
Whatever the reason, Jack Kramer, former U.S. amateur champion (1946-47), last week remembered out loud that he had earned a pretty penny playing even before he turned pro. Everybody knows that "amateur" tennis-tournament travelers get fat under-the-table fees, wrote Big Jake in This Week magazine-everybody, that is, except the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. And why blame the players? Why call them tennis bums? Topnotch tennis is a 52-week-a-year job; tennis stars have to earn a living like anybody else...
...Every one of us in this tournament is paid, and if we weren't, you can be damned sure there wouldn't be a one of us here," said one player. "What can you do? Turn pro and make less money than the amateurs?" Said current U.S. Champion Vic Seixas: "Tennis keeps moving along, but there are a lot of fuddies in the U.S.L.T.A. who just keep standing still. Things should change, and unless somebody thinks of a better incentive than money, they're going to change...