Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underdog National League team, the All-Star game, with four home runs, over the American League, 8-3; in Detroit. ¶British Miler Roger Bannister, Britain's Amateur Athletic Association championship, with his best time ever, and best in the world this year: 4:07.8; in London. ¶Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, his 36th straight victory, over clumsy Rex Layne, with a crushing sixth-round knockout; in New York. Marciano's showing put him in line to take on the winner of September's heavyweight championship fight between Ezzard Charles and Joe Louis. ¶Tony Trabert, the National...
...rhymes with have it) anywhere near as much practice time as the youngsters in the year-round California tennis foundries. At Cornell, where he majored in economics and became captain of the tennis team, winters are rugged; Savitt's tennis developed slowly, not nearly as fast as his heavyweight boxer's body (6 ft. 3 in., 185 Ibs.). In his junior year (1949), slow-footed Dick Savitt won the Eastern Intercollegiates, mainly by overpowering his opponents, and was ranked 16th nationally...
...University of Pennsylvania's light weight (150-lb.) crew, the Royal Henley Regatta's Thames Challenge Cup, over a heavyweight (average: 187 Ibs.) German crew, by a length; at Henley-on-Thames, England...
...Workin' at Our Trade." The victory brought Murphy just what he was looking for: a probable shot at the light-heavyweight (175-lb.) title held by Joey Maxim. The probability also goes to show the tangled state of U.S. boxing. Only four months ago, Seattle's Harry ("Kid") Matthews knocked the stuffing out of Murphy (one judge scored it 8-2). Since then, Matthews has knocked out two heavyweights and last week, far from the glamour of Yankee Stadium, he was knocking out another, Heavyweight (210 Ibs.) Bill Peterson in a Boise, Idaho arena. But Matthews...
...Robinson is already looking past Turpin to another title-the light heavyweight championship now held by Joey Maxim. Robinson says he will not fight Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles under any circumstances. But Maxim is something else again. Though Robinson is too politic to mention it, the light heavyweight crown is the only major world title not held by a Negro. Besides, says Good Businessman Ray Robinson, "it's a good money match...