Word: championship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked like windows in ancient outbuildings from which spectators peered out like court nobles in an old print. At the exclusive Racquet and Tennis Club on Manhattan's Park Avenue, devotees were watching Northrup R. Knox, 30, challenge 41-year-old Albert ("Jack") Johnson for the world open championship of the ancient game of court tennis...
...Lightweight Champion Joe Brown, upset by Johnny Busso in an over-the-weight bout last November, was in no mood to trifle when the two met again last week with the championship at stake. Bobbing, weaving and occasionally uncorking powerful rights, he bloodied the challenger, decked him in the ninth round, coasted to an easy unanimous decision...
...MARISON RATES N.Y.N., which beat the Crimson last year 18 to 9, and won 21 to 6 the year before, as a perennially top team. The visitors are especially strong in foil, in which Howard Glaser and co-captain Marty Davis, a left-hander, are possibilities for the international championship...
...series of matches this season when it takes on a weak Penn squad this afternoon in Philadelphia. This match, however, will be little more than a practice session for the Crimson, which will play Navy and Princeton tomorrow and Saturday. These contests will probably decide the Eastern Inter collegiate Championship, for Yale has lost to the Middies, 5 to 4, and a Crimson win at Annapolis would definitely make the varsity a favorite to take the crown...
...hazards. Asks one: "Isn't it worth maybe a broken leg every five years?" Typical of skiing's expansion is the fact that in a sport once confined to rugged men, a central figure today is a determined and independent Eastern socialite who is not a championship skier, but a man of venture capital whose enterprising push brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the U.S. For a look at the popular sport and its sometimes unpopular man, see SPORT, Bonanza in the Wilderness...