Word: championships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riding for Owner Fred Hooper. Within four months, Velasquez won 89 races and set a New Jersey record by booting home six winners in a single day at Garden State Park. His 300 victories last year put him second to Cuba's Avelino Gomez for the riding championship, and so far this season he is well ahead of his closest rival...
...Catharines, Ontario, this weeked the crew was scheduled to race for the North American championship against some of the world's finest teams, including a crew from East Germany and one from West Germany, the Achilles and Hector of eight-oared racing...
...Mast." The Greeks know it as oxygala, and it is filmjolk in Sweden. Bulgarians have always had the reputation of being the world's greatest yogurt eaters but, thanks to the energies of a Paris company called Societe Danone, the French, of all people, are taking over the championship. Last year they consumed more than 1.8 billion quarter-pint pots (238 million quarts) of the stuff, and they will get down well over 2 billion potfuls...
P.G.A. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Al Geiberger defends his crown at the Columbine Country Club in Denver. Conclusion of the tourney on Sunday from...
Last week, as the Tour set out from Marseille for the climb up 6,273-ft. Mont Ventoux, Tom Simpson, 29, who in 1965 became the first Briton to win bike racing's world championship, was in the lead pack. Nearing the summit, Simpson began to zigzag, crashed into a rock pile and collapsed. Doctors rushed him to a hospital in a helicopter-but Simpson was dead. In his jersey pocket, police found two partly empty pharmaceutical vials-one labeled with the trade name for a brand of British "bennies"-and Tour promoters found themselves with the makings...