Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prefers, as few skaters do, the required school figures to free skating. The school figures, 41 types in all, are the tedious, exacting, incredibly difficult fundamentals of figure skating (like a vocabulary test that must be passed before being allowed to make a speech). They count 60% in championship competition...
Each branch of sport is treated separately, arranged in the order in which the competitions with Yale began--rowing, baseball, football, track and field athletics, hockey and, finally, brief statements about lawn tennis and golf, for the "H" is given to Harvard men who win the intercollegiate tennis championship in singles or doubles and to men who win the intercollegiate golf championship...
Barbara Ann's handlers plainly considered the European championship only a practice workout for her big try in next month's winter Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland. But Prague's newspapers burned up a month's supply of flash bulbs photographing her on ice; even the Communist Rude Pravo shunted the Greek civil war to an inside page. At the finale, the 12,000 spectators, many of whom had paid scalpers' prices for tickets, cheered hard for "Scottova...
Last year U.S. Champion Dick Button had come within a blade of winning the men's world figure-skating championship at Stockholm. When the judges picked Hans Gerschweiler of Switzerland instead, Sweden's press had howled: "The best skater lost. . . ." Last week at Prague, in the European men's championship, flashy young Button beat the man who had beaten him. Losing to Gerschweiler in the school figures, Button came from behind to clinch the title by his boldness and abandon in the free skating. That made him the first and last American title-holder (next year...
...came Randolph Scott, John Hodiak, Dennis O'Keefe and Amos 'n' Andy's Freeman (Amos) Gosden, who are better than average players. Next to Augusta's Masters' Tournament, which is the great Bobby Jones's personal party, Bing's pro-amateur championship was the stop most top golfers least wanted to miss. Last week, an odd crew of 172 contestants trudged foursome-by-foursome around California's treacherous Cypress Point course on Monterey Peninsula-and came to the awesome 16th hole...