Word: championship
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Young and often little-known players caused much of the excitement in what was one of the more electrifying Wimbledons in years. Sweden's nimble and steely-nerved Bjorn Borg, 21, won the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club championship for the second straight time by defeating his disputatious U.S. rival, Jimmy Connors 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in a blistering finals match worthy of a centenary celebration. Both players had been forced to earn their passage to center court by staving off challenges from impressive newcomers, but their confrontation Saturday...
...Open played last Sunday had all the elements of high drama associated with the showcase of American golf. An affable Alabamian named Hubert Green displayed the mettle of one of golf's great champions in shooting a final round of even par 70 to win his first major championship with a 278 total, only one shot ahead of runner-up Lou Graham...
Green appeared to have the championship in his back pocket when he went two shots into the lead by birdieing the par-five 16th. He rifled a wedge shot that to use one of his own favorite expressions "came down like a butterfly with score feet" within a yard of the flagstick...
Green's style does not evoke comparisons with the classical grace of many earlier Open winners. Yet he showed the same shot-making ability around the exquisitely manicured greens of Southern Hills that earned Tommy Bolt the championship there in 1958. One has to go back to the days of Leo Diegel to find a preeminent professional with such a knock-kneed and elbows akimbo stance...
...Kingkill has more on its mind than special effects. The two main characters, Schlumberger and Maelzel, lock themselves in a struggle as tense and potentially humiliating as a championship chess match. Maelzel tempts the malformed Schlumberger into his machinery by using Louise Rouault, the wife of a mechanic-assistant, as bait. Eventually, Louise disappears but Schlumberger remains. The Turk frees him from the fear of losing a match publicly and gives him the power to expose Maelzel at any time. For his part, Maelzel exploits Schlumberger's gift for his own profit and dreams of a truly automated player...