Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis last month, with the Professional Golfers' Association championship in his grasp, Ben Hogan found the grind just about too hard to take. "I want to die an old man, not a young one," he told reporters. Every golfer in the big time-a businesslike gang that lives a life of tense desperation from hole to hole and tourney to tourney-knew just how he felt. The game had changed from the day of the great Walter Hagen, when a pro played in about 15 tournaments a year. Now it is a year-round business, in which only half...
...England's St. Anne's-on-Sea, Atlanta's little Louise Suggs, daughter of an old professional baseball player, added the women's British golf championship to her collection, which includes the U.S. title. The loser: Scotland's Jean Donald, on the last green...
...Mutual), for the third time, with the middleweight championship at stake...
...England's rain-soaked Royal St. George's links last week, two men slashed through the finals of the British Amateur golf championship. Because of the rain and high winds, neither Britain's Charlie Stowe, a $28 a week mechanic, nor Toledo's playboyish Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan was staying abreast of par. But they stayed even with each other, with 795 on the first round. Then Stowe, completely unstarched, bowed to Stranahan 5-&-4. ¶ | At St. Louis, in the $30,000 Professional Golfers Association championship, cool Ben Hogan systematically went about chopping Mike Turnesa...
...Boston's Charles River, Harvard's once-beaten crew won the Eastern Championship over nine rivals and thus boosted its chances of becoming the U.S. Olympic choice. Yale, ahead until the final few yards, was second. Harvard's big rival is now unbeaten Cornell. Cornell had kept a date with unbeaten Wisconsin on Lake Mendota, won by half a boat length...