Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ardmore, Pa., for the first time in the history of the national women's amateur golf championship, a 15-year-old girl stroked her way into the semifinals. Comely Marlene Bauer of Los Angeles, winner of the National Girl's Championship last month (TIME, Aug. 29), had oldtimers recalling the cool poise of the youthful Bobby Jones (who played in his first Nationals at 14). But after getting to the semifinal round, Marlene's firm grip slipped; on the second hole, she took seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach...
...nine rounds, Rocky Graziano sat in his corner, his face smeared with blood and bewilderment.The reform-school graduate who used to thrill Manhattan crowds with his ferocious, windmill technique was losing his first major fight in New York after a three-year exile. "You've got to knock him out," warned his manager, while he smeared carpenter's wax on a cut above Rocky's left eye. Growled Graziano, impatiently: "I still got one round...
Ringsiders were left to wonder what would happen next time Graziano fought someone his own size. Fusari, a welterweight who is twelve pounds lighter than Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Rocky, had made his heavier foe look ridiculous for most of the first nine rounds. Some of Rocky's haymakers missed by feet, not inches. In the second round, he missed a right so awkwardly that he landed on the seat of his pants-with a slight shove from Fusari. For playing the role of punching bag, and almost upsetting the dope, talented, clean-living Charlie Fusari collected...
...winning his first big fight in New York since he was banned in 1946 (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer), Roughhouse Rocky regained his old form as the best drawing card in fightdom. He will probably continue to be until the day he is foolhardy enough to fight a good man his own size-somebody like Sugar Ray Robinson...
...ground since winning the $50,000 Tanforan Handicap last fall-but none in actual competition. Most of it has been in railway express cars between San Francisco, Miami, Baltimore and Belmont Park. Like a football hero on crutches, Citation was traveling with Calumet Farm's first team while trainers fussed & fumed over his popped osselet...