Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grant Jackson, 6, a second-grader, bagged the vacation reading championship of Hobart, Okla. by plugging through 120 books (104 of them read aloud to his brother, Mike). Among the books: The Lady Bug Who Couldn't Fly Home, Scatter the Chipmunk, Eagle Jack and Indian Pete...
Married. Francisco ("Pancho") Segura, 26, excitable Ecuadorian tennist, whose two-handed technique made him the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles championship (1946); and Virginia Spencer Smith, 20, blonde Forest Hills, N.Y. tennis fan; in Manhattan...
MacDonald pointed out that his team still was a long way from championship form, however. "We were weak on our long passing game," he added, "and next week we'll have to do a lot of work on position play especially with the half back line...
...Pebble Beach, Calif., in the 47th U.S. Amateur Golf Championship, all the cheers were for 44-year-old Underdog Johnny Dawson. He had been politely invited not to play in the same tourney 18 years ago because he worked for a sporting-goods firm. By going into the real-estate business, Johnny had in recent years regained his amateur status. In the 36-hole final, the crowd backed him, groaned when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point...
...Forest Hills, L.I., in the final of the National Singles Tennis Championship, the crowd favorite was Frank Parker, who usually annoys the gallery with his stony-faced skill and mechanical shots. He won the gallery's fancy by unexpectedly copping the first two sets from Champion Jake Kramer, whose play was incredibly sloppy. Then King Jake got down to business, and with a fine series of service aces, drop-shots and volleys managed to keep his crown, so that he can profitably quit it (he is about to turn pro). The score...