Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down Rio's Avenida Rio Branco with Joao de Barro last week was like taking a stroll with Joe Louis in Harlem. Friends embraced him, girls waved, shoeshine boys grinned admiringly. Joāo, whose real name is Carlos Braga, is no boxer, but last week he was champ. In a land where everyone loves song, Joāo had written (with Collaborator Alberto Ribeiro) the song everybody was singing...
...afternoon's pole vault. New Hampshire's Boo Morcom cleared 14 ft., 3 5/8 in., for first place and a new regional A.A.U. record. The Crimson's Bill Lawrence and Bud Lockett stepped out at 13 ft., and 12 ft., 6 in., respectively, and let the New Hampshire champ battle out the last foot and more against himself...
...will have to beat Army if we expect to have a good season," Boston said yesterday, "but they have a good team and the meet is away." Led by 155-pound Stanley Thevenant, the Eastern intercollegiate champ, Army's undefeated grapplers have some of the best talent which the Crimson will see all winter...
...ever get him over a barrel," said Big Jake Kramer, "I'll beat him fifty straight matches without easing off." But things didn't work that way. Jake got the jitters in his pro tennis debut at Madison Square Garden, and lost badly to Pro Champ Bobby Riggs (TIME, Jan. 5). In Pittsburgh, Jake caught a cold, and lost again to Bobby. Then Jake got back some of his confidence by winning match No. 3 in Cleveland. Last week, after their tenth match in the tenth city on their U.S. tour, Jake was beginning to look better. Bobby...
...Champ Ted Norris took over where German left off, lapping his opponents in the quarter mile freestyle to lead teammate Hank Arthur home in 5:04.1, an excellent time considering the lack of competition...