Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain-slicked turf of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club, Wimbledon Champion Tony Trabert whipped his Davis Cup Teammate Vic Seixas and took away the Pennsylvania State Grass Court championship, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, in the Pennsylvania and Eastern women's final, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough beat New York State Champion Althea Gibson for the women's title...
...Frenchmen celebrated Bastille Day everywhere but on the fairways of La Boulie golf course near suburban Versailles. There Byron Nelson, 43, the tall, greying Texan who won the U.S. Open championship back in 1939, showed his old touch on the greens and his old straight skill off the tee, to take the French Open championship with a 17-under-par 271. Last American to take the title: Walter Hagen...
...Half a mile from the finish in the last of nine races for the Syce Cup and the Long Island Sound women's sailing championship, pint-sized Toni Monetti, 18, who won the midget title only five years ago, messed up a jibe and lost most of the lead she had built up on the first leg. Without wasting a moment, the Skidmore College sophomore went forward to untangle the sheets of her Lightning's big spinnaker. She finished in time to sail home third, earning just enough points to bring the Syce Cup home...
...James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with Thurber's immortal tribute to the life-preserving elixirs concocted by Aunt Margery Albright. This book is good fun for summer readers, especially for those who remember...
...Scotland, the 95th British Open Golf championship was played on the rugged Old Course at St. Andrews. The winner for the second year in a row: Australia's sure-stroking, young (25) Professional Peter Thomson, whose total of 281 shaved two strokes off the Old Course Open mark he set last year...