Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first singles, Dale Junta added considerable luster to his New England Intercollegiate Singles Crown by turning back Eric Moore 1-6, 6-2, 6-0. Moore, top seeded in the Intercollegiates, had been forced to default in the semi-final round...
...Garden's president (now board chairman), Brigadier General (ret.) John Reed Kilpatriclc. Its gist: longtime (1937-49) Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had tried to pry a tax-free $100,000 under-the-table bonus from the Garden brass for a 1949 defense of his crown (Joe retired before the fight ever materialized). The plum would not have helped Louis much. No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken by his own improvidence, Louis now owes a staggering $1,210,789 in U.S. income-tax arrears for 1946-51. New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred...
...Cairns, indoor 1000 champion, could run off with the 880 crown, although either Brew or Dick Schar, also of Dartmouth, could...
HANOVER, N.H., May 9--The lights went out today on the Crimson nine's 1956 hopes for its first EIBL crown in 17 years. In a make-or-break game against Dartmouth, the varsity's pitching staff fell apart and allowed the Green...
...them for the title. Aside from Moore, the only real fighter with the skill to take over is another brilliant, but young (21), light heavyweight named Floyd Patterson. An elimination tournament to name the new heavyweight champion may well end with light heavyweights Moore and Patterson boxing for the crown...