Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although there were nine other varsity crews in the championship race, the majority of the crowd of 18,000 which lined the banks of Lake Onondaga had eyes only for Navy and Washington. At the referee's shout of "Ready all . . . Row!", Navy spurted off at 40 strokes a minute. The fast start gave Navy a slim lead over Washington at the half-mile mark. By then, following the pre-race instructions of its canny Coach Rusty Callow, Navy began to save strength, switched to a long, easy 28-stroke-a-minute beat, to have plenty left...
...Madison Square Garden last week, the ex-street fighter and the ex-stevedore, both now 24 and duly coached and polished in Marquis of Queensberry niceties, met for the American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a world title bout with European Champion Randy Turpin in August. Punching Paddy Young's campaign plan was simple: bore in swinging for a knockout. Bobo Olson, a far fancier fighter, figured to win on points...
...Chantilly, France's Roger Lagarde beat Britain's Harry Bentley, 2 and 1, for the French Amateur Golf Championship, ending a two-year U.S. monopoly. Veteran Bentley had won the title twice before young (19) Lagarde was born...
Divorced. Randolph Adolphus ("Randy") Turpin, 25, Britain's contender for the world middleweight championship; by Mary Theresa Turpin, 26; after six years of marriage, one son; in Leamington, England...
...hard-jawed, 28-year-old mauler by the name of Jack Dempsey. That was in September 1923. Two weeks later, he fought his famous match with Luis Angel ("Bull") Firpo, at which boxing fans paid a total of $1,888,822 to see Dempsey retain his world heavyweight championship in 3 minutes, 57 seconds of furious fighting...