Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would blow it again. This week in the play-off it was Middlecoff who came apart. He splashed shots all over the course. Remarkably calm in the oppressive heat, Mayer played steady, close-to-par golf. While Middlecoff made Bobby Jones a prophet and lost the National Open championship, Dick Mayer...
...Colombes stadium outside Paris, President René Coty watched Toulouse beat Angers for the soccer championship of France. Just behind him in the presidential box, conspicuous in his red tarboosh and thick glasses, sat France's favorite Algerian, Ali Chekkal, 60-year-old lawyer and onetime vice president of the Algerian Assembly. When the French were summoned before the bar of the U.N. Assembly last February to defend their Algerian policies, they took along Ali Chekkal as a living, breathing testimonial to France's real popularity with Algeria's Moslems...
...contingent of U.S. golfers entered in the British Amateur championship was one of the weakest in years, and U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Harold Ridgley was considered one of the weakest of the lot. Hardly anyone noticed the grim, taciturn noncom as he plodded around Lancashire's seaside Formby links. But when all his countrymen were gone, Ridgley was still in the running. When he finished the semifinal round last week, just about every spectator on the course was ready to concede him the title...
...Amateur. He has a couple of Air Force titles and some minor British tournaments to his credit as well. But never anything like that fine semifinal at Formby. With his crisp, choppy swing, the ex-tailgunner demoralized South Africa's Arthur Walker, 13 and 12. British championship golf had not known such a bad beating since Lawson Little won the Amateur title from James Wallace at Prestwick...
...When the Johns Hopkins University Bluejays and the Mount Washington Club Wolfpack squared off to bash skulls for the national open lacrosse championship, the title was sure to stay where it belongs: in Baltimore, lacrosse capital of the U.S. Both Baltimore teams were unbeaten and untied when the game started; they were still unbeaten when it ended. After two overtime periods and 70 minutes of mayhem on the lawn, the final score...