Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:15-3:45 p.m.). Floyd Patterson challenges Jimmy Ellis for the World Boxing Association's version of the heavyweight championship. Live from Stockholm via satellite. Taped events from the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials round out the program...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The 100-mile U.S. Auto Club Championship for big, Indianapolis-type racers. Live, from Springfield...
There was also a eight-oar championship race at Orchard Beach, which Harvard did not enter. The race was won by St. Catherine's (Ontario) Rowing Club, which is Canada's Olympic entry. The Canadian boat bested Vesper by over a length, but it was not the same top nine men which Vesper put up in a losing effort to Harvard at the Olympic Trials in California last month...
When he beat Ben Hogan to win his first U.S. Open championship in 1952, Julius Boros was described by a sportswriter as a man who "played with a cool nonchalance, chomping blades of grass, making shots with a cigarette dangling from his lips." In 1963, when he won the Open for the second time by beating Arnold Palmer in a playoff, he was said to be "placid and pleasant." Last week Boros was still cool, nonchalant, placid and pleasant-and still winning. This time, the prize was his third major title, the Professional Golfers Association championship. Boros still chomped...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National Skydiving Championship, Tucson, Ariz.; Carting Championship, Vevey, Switzerland; International Surfing Championship, Makaha Beach, Hawaii...