Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club tournament. Now that he is in the big time, Bobby can't be bothered. Winning the U.S. title makes him eligible for the interzonal finals this summer in Yugoslavia. And a good showing against the tough competition there would make him a potential challenger for the world championship-a title now being decided in Moscow between the defending champion, Russia's Vassily...
After a winter of high winds and rain-soaked, skittery greens wherever they played, the leg-weary lady golf pros straggled into Augusta, Ga. last week for the $5,000 Titleholders championship, climax of the Southern campaign. Their luck was still bad. The weather would have discouraged a Marlboro...
...better Yardley likes it. He says that he scores best when a guard is climbing all over him: "When a guy is on top of you, you know where he is. You can watch the basket." Yardley has driven the Pistons to a place in the National Basketball Association championship playoffs. All their opponents know that if bothering Yardley makes him dangerous, leaving him free to shoot might turn him into-well, a man who would set a record that nobody could hope to break...
Dudley won the House Boxing Championship last night for the third straight year as its four finalists captured two firsts and two seconds to score 16 points...
Tonight's Yale game, at 8:30 in the Boston Arena, is somewhat of an anticlimax. The varsity has wrapped up the NCAA bid and the Ivy League Championship, so a loss to the Blue at this juncture would only cause some red faces on the selection committee. But as Weiland commented last night, "It is a Yale game and no one wants to lose to them...