Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major reason for the manpower cut is the $50 per man cost of the air trip to Ithaca. Previously, cross-country teams have competed in championship meets at Cornell or further away, but since a seven man team is the maximum fielded in such contests, the additional five runners would not have been sent...
...fast and impatient, deliberately tries to confuse opponents by creating an impression of wildness while actually playing with hard logic. He has a habit of staring at opponents with what an old acquaintance calls "the coldest eyes in bridge." Captain of the U.S. team that lost the world championship match to Italy last winter, Crawford is an inveterate gambler, plays poker, canasta, gin and pinochle for money, as well as bridge. Well supplied with the egoism that seems necessary to bridge greatness, he was once asked to name his ideal partner, unhesitatingly rasped out his answer: "Another John Crawford...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28--Ted Williams wrapped up his sixth American League batting championship with a closing day flurry--a double and homer in four trips--while his Boston teammate and rival Pete Runnels went hitless in four chances...
...year-old kid from Georgia waited politely while his opponent for the next day's finals of the 1958 National Amateur golf championship toiled up the steep climb from the 18th hole. "I'm Tommy Aaron, Mr. Coe," he said. "I'm going to play you tomorrow...
...Harlem's Althea Gibson (TIME cover, Aug. 26, 1957), 31, defending her U.S. national championship at Forest Hills, defeated California's 22-year-old Darlene Hard (3-6, 6-1, 6-2) and announced that she will retire from amateur tennis for a year to sing professionally. Australia's Ashley Cooper, 21, shrugged off an ankle injury in the last set to defeat 23-year-old Aussie Mai Anderson (6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 10-8, 8-6), defending champion, in the national men's championship; for the first time in the 78-year history...