Word: championship
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Last week in Chicago, Prize Fighter Joe Louis lived up to this dubious compliment. In the presence of 45,000 spectators in Comiskey Park his hands knocked out James J. Braddock in the eighth round of their bout for the heavyweight championship of the world. Major results of Louis' handiwork were two: it made him the first colored man to hold the championship since crafty Jack Johnson allowed himself to be knocked out by Jess Willard in 1915, and it started a new regime in pugilistic finance, by which shrewd, bald-headed Michael Jacobs succeeded Madison Square Garden Corp...
Between Golfer Guldah's two little putts lay two stories. One was the story of what was in many ways the most dramatic U. S. Open Golf Championship ever played. The other was the story of one of the most extraordinary golfers in the game's history...
...Oakland Hills last week, the Open Championship, No. 1 event of golf-72 holes of medal play for the best amateurs and professionals in the U. S. sifted through nation-wide sectional qualifying tests-started out as anticipated. Most publicized U. S. golfer since Bobby Jones, long-driving young Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., playing in his first Open, lived up to all advance notices with a 69 (three under par) for his first round. Made after a shaky start in which he was two over par on the first four holes, he shared the lead with...
...Open Championship always produces at least one heroic round. Last week it was provided on the second day of play by Jimmy Thomson whose gargantuan drives have made him for the past two years the most spectacular professional in the land. Golfer Thomson arrived at the 17th green needing a par and a birdie for a 64, by two strokes the lowest Open score on record. He then missed a 2-ft. putt by inches, missed another on the 18th, took a 66. Meantime the defending champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen...
...Millrose Athletic Club: the national Amateur Athletic Union marathon, from Mount Vernon to the White House, winning by a half-mile over Pat Dengis of Baltimore and Canadian James Bartlett. C. Jessie Anderson, 22, dogged daughter of a Perth golf professional: the British Women's Golf Championship, succeeding Pamela Barton; by crushing Doris Parks of Edinburgh, 6 & 4; at Turnberry, Scotland...