Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the White Sox finally won a game, squeaking past the Minnesota Twins, 3-2. "I don't feel any different," growled Stanky. "I don't feel any happier...
...world's first open tournament-an obscure British amateur proved that the talent gap may not be so big after all. On successive afternoons, Mark Cox, 24, who was not even considered good enough to play singles for the British Davis Cup team, upset two of the game's biggest names: the U.S.'s Pancho Gonzales, 39, king of the pros for 18 years, and Australia's Roy Emerson, 31, king of the amateurs until he signed a $75,000 pro contract last month...
Lefthander Cox started out shakily against Gonzales-blowing six straight games. "A love, love and love defeat crossed my mind," he said later. "I was very pleased finally to win a game. After that it was different." It sure was. Cox forced the panting Pancho into the first five-set match he had played in five years and wore him down in 2¼ hrs. 0-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Cox disposed of Emerson in 75 min., blasting the Aussie off the court in straight sets...
...world's No. 1 professional, to repair the damage. In the semifinals, Laver beat Cox easily 6-4, 6-1, 6-0. Nevertheless, Giant Killer Cox had served fair warning: tennis' pros had better tend to business if they want to stay on top of the game...
...Catholic priest, whose ever so brief career as major-league pitcher accounts for one of baseball's oldest and least wanted records-most runs given up in nine innings; of a kidney ailment; in Philadelphia. On May 18, 1912, when the Detroit Tigers angrily refused to play a game with the Athletics (after Ty Cobb was suspended for hitting a fan three days before), Travers, then a student at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, was one of a group of sandlotters recruited to face the A's. The fans were mightily amused, but the pros...