Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After their dismal showing in the Davis Cup challenge round, U.S. tennis players hardly figured to stand a chance in their own national championship. Australia's Lew Hoad, with his big, booming game, and Ken Rosewall, with his classic ground shots, looked too hot to handle. Ex-Champions Seixas and Trabert should have been completely outclassed...
...Eddie Joost; they knocked off the hapless Athletics, 14-2, wound up only 3½ games out of first place. CJ In Philadelphia, green-eyed Barbara Breit, 17, defeated Mexico City's Maria Reyes, 6-2, 6-1, to win the U.S. girls' grass-court tennis championship for the second straight year, then joined Diane Wooton, to take the doubles...
...Charlotte, N.C., 22-year-old Pat Lesser, Seattle University senior, won the U.S. Women's Amateur golf championship, outgaming Jane Nelson by 7 and 6 in the 36-hole final at Myers Park Country Club...
...Ocean City, N.J., 21-year-old Corny ("Glit") Shields Jr., son of Broker-Yachtsman Cornelius Shields (TIME, July 27, 1953), outskippered 24 other contenders to win the International Class no championship in five days' close racing...
...Husky Arnold Palmer, 25, a professional golfer for less than a year, shot a fine 265 for 72 holes on Toronto's Weston Golf Club. His 23-under-par total, just two strokes over the tournament record, won him the $15,000 Canadian Open championship...