Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They had to be discreet. Minutes after making their last appearance, the entire Hungarian gymnast team was whisked away by friends to a safe and secret hiding place. Some of the championship water poloists were still damp from a workout in the pool-and still mad over their encounter with the Russians (see SPORT)-when they, too, were hurried...
Middleweight Championship (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Sugar Ray Robinson v. Gene Fullmer from Madison Square Garden...
...oldest). Only a few years before, Patterson had been an underprivileged Brooklyn kid, a tough and aimless truant who ran with the back-street gangs and snarled himself into a school for wayward boys. He came out of a lower East Side gymnasium to win the 1952 Olympic middleweight championship at 17, went on through a passel of rugged amateur scraps and only one defeat in 31 professional fights...
...Game," the almost always spirited Army-Navy scrap for the service championship, was a big bust. Army fumbled away chances to run up a score; Navy scuttled its own attack while its sloppy defense did little more than watch the soldiers stop themselves. The game ended, as it should have, in a 7-7 tie, and then, as it should have, the Naval Academy refused an invitation to the Cotton Bowl...
...expected to carry the brunt of the Crimson attack this year, and since four of them are returning lettermen, MacVeagh, Place and Heckscher being the top three on last year's team, Coach Jack Barnaby feels that the team has an excellent chance of repeating last year's championship performance...