Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornell's Dick Savitt and Leonard Steiner at one two court carry national titles, Savitt ranking twenty-sixth in the country and Steiner Junior doubles champ and singles runner-up. Savitt made fast work of Ted Backe in two quick, lopsided sets, Steve Pratt, who jumped from three to two court in inter-team competition last week, gave Steiner more trouble, taking the first round, and losing the next two by close scores...
...last week in Manhattan, Pierre stepped briskly into Park Avenue's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club. Though he is the world's champ, he is also the club's court tennis pro, which puts him in the class of hired help. (Court tennis is a game that none but kings, millionaires and their friends can afford.) He responded respectfully to members' greetings (they called him "Pierre"; he called them "mister") and changed into flannels and sneakers. Since he became open champion in London 20 years ago, he had been challenged only twice before. Challenger No. 3: Sandy...
Croaked one of his hangers-on: "You pulped him, champ-pulped him." The world's middleweight champion scowled back coldly: "Gwan. I licked him with my brains. He didn't think I could box. I showed him. I sure showed him. For a lousy buck, too." A photographer wanted him to kiss the dollar (Rocky's purse for fighting Sonny Home last week in Washington), but the champ's attention wavered. He answered another question: "Yeah, so my timing was off. What...
Said one commissioner: "We're sticking our chin out but we're right. A champ's gotta fight." Added Chief Commissioner Col. Harvey L. Miller: "O.K., the kid runs away from the Army. But then he paid his debt to the country. He serves ten months in the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks...
...recent survey of those who could choose between competitive radio and television programs, said Langhoff, showed that 94% chose television. Said he: ". . . When these two stand up and slug it out there is little doubt . . . who is the coming champ." Langhoff warned sponsors against wearing out the television audience with tediously repeated commercials. Since television demands undivided attention of the viewer, said Langhoff, it also "induces fatigue at a much greater rate than . . . radio, and possibly encourages sly drooping of the eyelids during the duller portions of a program...