Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tournaments have sprouted so fast that the most ardent fans get fouled up trying to keep track of who is playing whom, and where, and when. Last winter alone, World Championship Tennis had two and even three tournaments going at once. No. 1 Player Connors played on yet another tour while the women trekked along on their own circuit. And there has been no relief. Since May, World Team Tennis has horned in to compete against an already crowded schedule of traditional tournaments...
Died. Gary Sanders, 25, popular pro golfer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buena Park, Calif. At 16, Sanders won the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, then turned pro after college and earned $22,665 during last year's tour, which included a victory in Florida's Amelia Island Open. He was competing in the Western Open in June when he learned he had lymph-gland cancer, which was thought to be unrelated to his death...
Baker started the team from scratch three years ago and took it to national championship level in the space of a single season. The crew represented the U.S. in World Championships at Moscow...
...women's team has ever made it past the preliminary heats and into the championship finals, but Parker's team may have a better chance. Parker's oars-woman finished the 1000-meter course in 3 minutes 10 seconds, in last week's Olympic Women's Rowing Committee's test, beating the previous women's records by eight seconds...
...chess grand master; following an accidental fall; in Manhattan. Chess champion of France, Rossolimo came to the U.S. in 1952, when chess in America was less popular than it is today. Though his artistic, almost romantic style of play drew awards for "brilliancy" and won him the U.S. Open Championship in 1955, he was never able to make a living from the game and supplemented his tournament and chess-studio earnings by working as a Waldorf-Astoria busboy and a New York cabby...