Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British had never seen anything quite like Texas' wisecracking Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias. "She must be Superman's sister," one spectator whispered after the Babe whacked a whistling drive down the fairway last week in the British women's amateur golf championship at Gullane, Scotland. The Babe nearly always outdrove her opponents by 50 to 100 yards. On one nine, she came in two under men's par. Between rounds she entertained galleryites with trick shots and her impressions of the highland fling...
After lunch, Jacqueline Gordon was still playing hard. But the Babe had changed to her old blue corduroy slacks, and she had her game under control. She cinched the championship on the 32nd green. As she went into a victory jig, a bystander asked her the inevitable question about the secret of her success and got a far-from-inevitable answer. Cracked the Babe: "I just loosen my girdle and let the ball have...
...Open Golf Championship (Sat. 6 p.m., ABC). Final round of the 1947 tourney, from St. Louis
Last week, in a game that settled the white man's 1947 championship, the casualties were almost too minor to mention -one cracked lip, one barked shin. Civilization and 300 years had changed the game, but it still could not be called sissy. To avoid broken bones and bruises, modern players wear armor: forearm pads, shoulder pads, heavy-duty gloves, a helmet. And they have made a science of self-defense...
Production Line. The championship game last week was an all-Baltimore affair between Johns Hopkins University, longtime lord of the game, and the nearby Mount Washington Club, built around past Hopkins stars. Nobody was surprised at Baltimore's monopoly of the finals: though lacrosse is Canada's official national game, Baltimore is now the game's capital. When American kids everywhere else are reaching for baseball bats each spring, Baltimore's small fry fondle lacrosse sticks. (Baltimore is the largest Eastern city without a major-league baseball team.) Over a dozen Baltimore prep-school lacrosse teams...