Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third straight year, Melbourne Professional Peter Thomson proved that he practically owns the British Open Golf championship. On the long and tricky links at Hoylake, England, Thomson stacked up four spectacular rounds to breeze home in 286, three strokes in front of Belgium's Flory Van Donck...
...Carola Mandel, Cuba-born beauty and wife of a Chicago department-store executive, broke 300 straight targets to beat three other top women and 14 men in the annual Rebel Open Skeet Shoot all-gauge championship at Jackson, Miss., went on to establish a new women's world record of 387 birds...
Shucking off Stars. For the elder states man of baseball, the fact that the Pirates had become inconvenient to the rest of the league was pleasant news indeed. When Rickey came to town in 1950 -after building championship teams in St. Louis and Brooklyn - the Pirates were a lackluster crew bound for nowhere. As general manager, Rickey ruthlessly started to rebuild, and, according to many fans, generally managed to ruin the franchise as he poured everything into a hunt for new, young talent. Explains Rickey augustly: "I decide I'm going to paint a picture. I have the brushes...
...York's Harlem conquered her jitters and her longtime nemesis, California's Louise Brough, to win the Northern Women's Singles title in Manchester, England, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, and establish herself as the favorite to win next month's Wimbledon championship...
Died. Sir Francis Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire, 65, Australian industrialist-philanthropist and famed swim star who represented his country in three Olympic Games (1908, 1920, 1924), won more than 200 championship titles, set eight world records; in Melbourne...