Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haverford, Pa., just back with the Wimbledon singles championship, 17-year-old Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly walked off with her third straight Pennsylvania & Eastern States title after losing only eleven games in the entire tournament. Asked about the reported tiff with her coach, Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, she replied: "I am not mad . . . We had a few words in England over my supposedly sore shoulder that never really bothered me, but we kissed and made up. Teach made me what I am today. She changed my entire game, and she'll be my coach as long as I play tennis...
...final results seemed to prove that experience helps. Britain's eagle-faced Philip Wills, the oldest (52) pilot in the meet, soared off with the overall combined championship in a British-built Sky. Runner-Up Gerard Pierre of France, the meet's youngest (22) contestant, broke down and wept. Slowly knocking the ashes from his pipe, Soarer Wills peered down through his spectacles and said: "My boy, you have plenty of time ahead of you to become champion...
...state basketball player in high school. At Stanford, after giving up football for two years, he tried out for the team last fall as a junior. His plunging power and breakaway speed (his 96-yd. kickoff run-back against U.S.C. sparked Stanford to the Pacific Coast championship) prompted veteran Coach Pop Warner, who coached both Thorpe and Ernie Nevers, to say: "Mathias is the closest thing to a miracle worker I've seen in 60 years." After a few rounds of golf, Bob already shoots...
...town of Tulare, Calif, (pop. 14,000) is often called "Mathiasville," in honor of its No. i citizen. Last week, playing host to the U.S. decathlon championship contest for the second time, 5,000 Tulareans packed the stands of the local high-school stadium to watch Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias in action against 25 topflight U.S. athletes, all aiming for U.S. Olympic berths...
...P.O.A. final to Walter Hagen. In the 1942 final Jim Turnesa lost to Sam Snead. In 1948 Mike Turnesa lost to Ben Hogan. That was the year that Brother Willie, the only amateur in the family, won his second U.S. amateur title to go along with his 1947 British championship...