Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over in 30 seconds. Springing forward, Taiho ducked low, grasped Takamiyama in a sukuinage, or "scooping throw," dumped him on the ground. Takamiyama was not at all dismayed by his defeat. Nor were the critics. The Tokyo newspaper Hochi Shimbun predicted that Jesse Kuhaulua will win the sumo championship "within a couple of years...
Saturday, September 28 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). U.S. Olympic men's and women's gymnastic trials from Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif., and the roaring Southern 500 Stock Car Championship from Darlington...
...well as playing polo before the cameras. Winthrop and Snow Jr. also started for the regular Myopia Polo squad which swept the New England polo title last weekend. The other half of the championship squad will play for the special Myopia team in Sunday's game...
...Negro playground guard from Richmond, Va., established himself as the No. 1 star in one of the most segregated U.S. sports. In a five-set match, Ashe, 25, defeated blond Tom Okker of The Netherlands, 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, for the U.S. Open championship. His victory made him the first amateur to win a major open event, the first Negro ever to capture the U.S. men's singles crown, and the first American in 13 years to win his country's most prestigious tennis title...
...lacking the 'killer instinct,' " says Ashe. "I suppose it used to be true. When things were going bad, I'd say to myself, 'What am I doing here?' " And then he would falter. In 1963, he won the U.S. Men's Hard Court championship, but was beaten in the third round at Wimbledon. In 1965 he led the U.S. Davis Cup team to a 3-2 victory over Mexico, only to be benched during the interzone finals against Spain on the grounds that his play on clay was lackluster...