Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Before the race was half over, all the Jaguars were out. Two factory Ferraris were knocked out by mechanical trouble, but the third, piloted alternately by Defending Champions Phil Hill of Santa Monica, Calif, and Belgium's Olivier Gendebien, roared on through the night, built a three-lap lead over two pursuing Astons...
...first mile of the three-mile grind, Syracuse held the lead, but at the halfway mark, running a stroke under Syracuse, Coach Norm Sonju's Wisconsin eight forged in front. At two miles, Syracuse edged closer. But with a half mile to go, Wisconsin mounted a killing sprint at 39 strokes per minute, coasted home to win by two lengths for its first I.R.A. victory since 1951, when the regatta was held at Marietta, Ohio...
Joining other senior Royal Air Force brass in a submachine-gun target match, Britain's sporting Chief of Air Staff Sir Dermot Boyle sprayed much lead to little avail, wound up 21st in an eagle-eyed field of 22 officers. He took his crushing defeat stoically: "Either I'm a very bad shot or there's a great deal of insubordination in the air force...
...country for old men. Ben Hogan, 46, shared the lead in the first round, but could not stand the pace. Sam Snead, 45, got hot for one three-under-par round, then subsided. By the final 18 holes of the U.S. Open golf tournament at the Winged Foot Country Club course in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y., young (27) Bill Casper Jr. held a three-stroke lead. On the last day Bill Casper, golf's best putter, bogeyed three of the last eight holes, but finished with a 72-hole total of 282, two over par. Then he sat back...
Burly Mike Souchak birdied the tough 16th hole to move within a stroke of the lead, but an overstroked approach gave him a bogey on the 18th and he was out of the running. Rosburg, who grips a club like a baseball bat, sank a chip shot and 30-ft. putt for successive birdies on the 11th and 12th. But on the final hole he needed to sink a 40-ft. putt to tie. It stopped a foot short, and Bill Casper was the U.S. Open champion...