Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State Boxing Commissioner Henry N. Lamer, Football and boxing coach, said yesterday he thought the Jimmy Carter Tommy Collins light weight beat was one of the safest championship fights in the history of the ring...
...member of the State Athletic Commission, president of the Pony Baseball Leagues (for boys from 12 to 15), and the donor of a sports trophy room to U.C.L.A. containing such mementos as Babe Ruth's bat and the trunks Gene Tunney wore the night he won the championship from Jack Dempsey. Joe thinks he is the only man living to have two athletic fields named after him: one in his home town of Hoigate, Ohio, the other at U.C.L.A., which has made him an honorary undergraduate (Joe never got beyond the ninth grade...
...named "Redlegs" lost to the newly resettled (from Boston to Milwaukee) Braves, 2-0, as the 1953 baseball season officially got under way. ¶ln Manhattan, after losing the first game of the playoff, the Minneapolis Lakers whipped the New York Knickerbockers four straight for the National Basketball Association championship the fourth Laker title in five years iln Pocatello, the Idaho State boxing team, with the aid of its Olympic boxer, Ellsworth ("Spider") Webb, won the N.C.A.A. title from Wisconsin, 25-19 ¶ At Bowie, Md., in a Kentucky Derby preview-with Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer absent-Eugene...
George McNair, captain of the fencing team, won the New England Free Weapon Championship yesterday...
...high point total forced wrestling Captain Johnny Lee from the National A.A.U. Wrestling Tournament Saturday after he reached the semi-final round. There he lost in a last minute pin to Dick Hauser of the U.S. Air Force. Hauser went on to win his fourth National A.A.U. 125-pound championship, a title Lee held...