Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Championship Playoff...
Then, rounding an icy curve, he slipped, and landed sprawling on his face. Barelegged rivals breezed by, among them Bob Karnes of Kansas U. Near the finish line, Karnes missed a turn, and that finished him. The cause of his lapse: snowblindness. The winner of the queerest cross-country championship on record: 28-year-old Jack Milne of the University of North Carolina. His time-20:41.1-was a new Michigan course record. Said he: "I didn't deserve...
...weeks, in a turnstile war in New York City, the new league has outdrawn the old. This week, 39,012 cash customers went to Yankee Stadium to see the talented New York Yankees roll by the Buffalo Bills, 35-13, and cinch All-America's eastern division championship...
There are two crack halfbacks on Michigan's unbeaten team, which ran wild last week against Wisconsin (40 to 6) to win the Big Nine Championship and a ticket to the Rose Bowl. Bump Elliott is good on both offense and defense, but trigger-armed Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), a specialist, is more spectacular. The only trouble with a backfield made up of the nation's four most touted backfield stars-Lujack, Conerly, Walker and Chappuis-is that there isn't a fullback among them...
...caddy Demaret tips his caddies as much as $150 for a tournament (the usual pro's tip: $5 a round). In match play, Demaret usually does badly. After Ben Hogan drubbed him 10 and 9 last year in the P.G.A. Championship semifinals, newsmen asked what was the turning point of the match. Replied Jimmy dryly: "When Hogan showed up." But Jimmy has won the prized Masters' Tournament twice...