Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ashkenazy. This summer there are even two other Texas pianists-Ivan Davis, 25, who won first place at last month's Naples competition, and James Mathis, 24. And at the Tchaikovsky Competition itself, U.S. Artists Joyce Flissler, who took seventh in violin, and Daniel Pollack, 23, who took eighth in piano, won ovations that were overlooked abroad in the groundswell of Cliburn publicity...
...take him out in the seventh or eighth round," said Lightweight Champion Joe Brown just before he climbed into the ring in Houston to defend his title against nimble, light-punching Challenger Ralph Dupas. As good as his word, the lean Louisiana Negro put Dupas on the deck three times in the eighth, finally stepped back politely to let Referee Jimmy Webb announce what everyone in the arena already knew: Brown was still the boss of the 135-lb. division...
...eighth inning, with one Dartmouth run in, the tying run on first, and one out, lefthander Gerry Emmet came in to relieve starter Dave Brigham and quelled the Indian attempt to score the tying run. Emmet did not give up a hit or a walk in the next inning and two-thirds...
...other two singles wins were registered by Tim Gall-wey and Al Goldman. The former upset Gene Scott, who had not lost a match all year, by breaking through in the eighth game of the third set to triumph...
...doubles matches which decided the outcome of both the League and Big Three standings. By winning the first two, the Crimson gained a decisive League victory, but since the seventh, eighth, and ninth singles matches went to Yale, the Elis' victories in the last four doubles carried them to the Big Three crown...