Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true ancients of U.S. sport had his greatest day of championship last week. White-topped Ben White, 70 years old and driver-trainer of harness horses since Grover Cleveland's second administration, won the World Series of harness racing: the $40,000 Hambletonian Stake for three-year-old trotters...
Stocky Charlie Daggert knows how to use his fists. At 18, during World War I, he punched his way to the featherweight championship of the U.S. Navy. But, as Daggert says, he also has "a bit of Irish wit." Last week Daggert called upon that...
...Club. For members only." From one or two of the ten still playable courts comes the subdued pock of a quiet game. Ten other courts are overrun by rank grass. Old Tom Pettitt, the Superintendent of Tennis, straw hat on head, still sits on the clubhouse porch. The deserted Championship Court is kept inviolate, awaiting the return of champions...
Half the circuit-swank Southampton, suburban Rye, businesslike Forest Hills-will still be in the game. But the one player with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes...
...National Tournament had grown too big for Newport's fancy britches and, though the Championship Court was hastily moved to the Horse-Show ring, the event passed to Forest Hills. But the Newport Invitation carried on, with the best players and the plushiest audience. The manners of that audience have always been notorious. On the dot of the bathing hour, no matter whose the match and what the score, a sizable group of spectators would retire from the stand as if by signal. Jay Gould would stamp through the festive crowds to the court-tennis court without so much...