Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightweight fight in New Orleans, Challenger Joe Brown, a 30-year-old ex-carpenter, broke his right hand and slowed down to some careful jabs and hooks, had Champion Wallace ("Bud") Smith, 27, out on his feet in the 15th, won a split decision and the lightweight championship of the world...
...time to get some work done around the White House. Congress was gone from Washington, the national political eye was on Chicago, and there were plenty of pending problems ranging all the way from Suez to the 1958 budget. But problems or no, President Eisenhower was acting like a championship fighter waiting impatiently in his dressing room for an end to the political preliminaries and the main event bell...
Whatever the reason, bonny Shelley continued to churn out championship performances. On the last night of the Olympic tryouts at Detroit's Brennan pools last week, the tireless 18-year-old won the 100-meter butterfly in 1:12.3, just half a second over her own world record. Even if she has to do it all by herself, Shelley is determined to win her country an Olympic gold medal, something no U.S. woman swimmer could do four years ago at Helsinki...
...Texan Jack Burke Jr. had his own system for standing the gaff of five days of nerve-twanging match play in the Professional Golfers Association championship at Canton, Mass. He pretended that the standard 4½-in. cup was actually two inches larger. This happy delusion kept his chip shots sharp, his putting amazingly accurate. With the additional help of body English on the greens, Burke beat Florida's Ted Kroll 3 and 2, to become the only golfer besides Sam Snead to win the Masters and P.G.A. tournaments in the same year...
...Returning to grass after a disappointing Derformance in the National Clay Courts championship in Chicago, New York's Althea Gibson got back in form, beat Margaret Osborne du Pont 6-1, 6-4 at the Vlerion Cricket Club to win the women's Pennsylvania and Eastern States tennis championship, most important U.S. title of her career...