Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chances are, the sellout crowd would have come anyway. Toronto's citizens are soft touches for sports; they would have packed the Maple Leafs' ballpark for a dog show-especially one that got the magnificent ballyhoo laid down for last week's hoked-up "world heavyweight championship" squabble. The figures: that elegant gypsy, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, and Canadian Heavyweight Champion James J. Parker, otherwise known as the Saskatoon Statue...
...stubbed little toe-the result of indulging in the unusual pastime of trying to place-kick a hefty chunk of cinder block-caused University of Washington Sophomore Anne Quast, 18, considerable pain, but she limped through the 36-hole final of the women's Western amateur championship at the Guyan Country Club in Huntington, W. Va. to beat Defending Champion Pat Lesser...
...mildly apologetic for the stubble that darkened his unshaven face. "I always try to look rough on these days," he explained. But 5 o'clock shadow did not scare off his fans. The crowd on hand at Indiana's Wabash College for the National A.A.U. decathlon championship-the trials to determine U.S. Olympic contenders-dogged Bob Richards' every step...
...Vastly surprised to find himself leading Wimbledon Champion Lew Hoad in the semi-finals of England's Midland Counties tennis championship, a 19-year-old Briton named Michael Davies was moved to try an ingenious bit of gamesmanship; he walked around the net to say that he was defaulting. Prevailed upon to change his mind, Davies went back to whip the startled Aussie, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. After that Davies had nothing left. In the finals he lost to South Africa's Trevor Fancutt...
...make hate work for him." In the prize ring, Graziano remains an undisciplined, roughhouse fighter, but now society applauds instead of imprisoning him. The habit of trouble is not broken. He misses scheduled bouts, tangles with gamblers and boxing commissions. Before he meets Tony Zale for the championship, newspapers break the story that Rocky had been dishonorably discharged from the Army for belting an officer...