Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team played were against the three best teams in the league, in fact. Harvard was the only team in the league to defeat Princeton twice. After losing at Dartmouth, the varsity bounced back to gamely trounce a taller favored Indian team, and thereby eliminate it from the league championship race...
...intent on proving it an illegal monopoly, the International Boxing Club (James D. Norris, Pres.) caught a legal haymaker. Boxing may be a sport, decided Manhattan's Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan last week, but it is also a big and far from benevolent business, and promotion of championship bouts is monopolized by the I.B.C. in violation of the Sherman antitrust laws...
...from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to the Chicago Stadium and Detroit's Olympia Arena. It holds exclusive contracts with almost all the top fighters. During the period of the Government's complaint (1949-53), it controlled the promotion of 36 of the 44 U.S.-staged championship fights. In their insistence on cornering championship bouts, concluded Judge Ryan, Norris and his pals "engaged in a combination and conspiracy . . . and were parties to contracts, agreements, arrangements and understandings in unreasonable restraint of [interstate commerce...
...Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet Club, Knox left longtime (eight years) Champion Alastair Bradley Martin, 42, limp with exhaustion, won the U.S. amateur singles championship...
...slide, throw, catch until his hands hung dead on his wrists. "We're going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would nod fiercely in agreement. At 17 Jim was a spectacular outfielder whose all-round talents won the state championship for his high-school team; but his father was never satisfied. "How'd I do, dad?" Jim asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied, "Not bad, son. But you weren't on your toes all the time, and you know it." Jim nodded dully, and the minute...