Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timers were knocked out. Even Sammy Snead could not survive the tournament's fourth round. When the four semifinalists teed off last week in the Professional Golfers' Association championship in Dayton, Ohio, the gallery fastened on two businesslike young-timers: lean Dow Finsterwald, 27, playing his first P.G.A., and chunky Lionel ("Frenchy") Hebert,* 29, who had never won a major tournament...
...Laver of Australia won the $25,000 U.S. Professional Tennis Championship by beating Spain's Andre Gimeno at the Longwood Cricket Club yesterday...
...they spent a long time on their way to the top. It took them 50 years to win their first World Series-and then, a year later, they learned that the Chicago White Sox, whom they had beaten, had thrown the series for gamblers. So the Redlegs' 1919 championship went into the record books as the "Black Sox" scandal. No one won; baseball was the loser...
...That year "Me and Paul" won respectively 30 and 19 games, pitched the Cards to the pennant and world championship...
...Having already decided that he had no more good mile races left in his system for this season, Don Bowden, the only better-than-four-minute miler in the U.S., traveled to the National A.A.U. championships in Dayton and ran a slow third behind Australia's Merv Lincoln (4:06.1) and U.C.L.A. Senior Bob Seaman. In the 440-yd. run, remarkable Reggie Pearman, 33, ran the fastest quarter mile of his life (0:46.4) to win the title just ten years after he won his first A.A.U. championship by beating Mal Whitfield...