Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late last night arrangements were made for the Varsity soccer team to make its debut next Wednesday afternoon in an unofficial match with the Royal Marines of the British Navy...
...medal round Miss Amory shot 76, low score of the day. But after the first round of match play, she was on the sidelines. So was Mrs. Holleran and Defending Champion Betty Jameson, generally considered the ablest of America's golfing sorority, who was put out by a bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year...
...doubles championship with Jack Kramer. At Sea Bright, main warm-up for Forest Hills, he was good enough in singles to get as far as the final, and it took Bobby Riggs to beat him. Last week cool Mr. Riggs beat him again, this time in a semifinal. That match had the sideline spectators' heads wagging-the shot that always gets a laugh in the newsreels-with almost parade-ground precision...
...Then temperamental Mr. Kovacs' game blew up. He looked as though he preferred to be almost anywhere but on a tennis court. Riggs easily dealt him out of the next three sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3, and so got another national championship to match...
...Fields. Fields refers to La Cava as The Wop. La Cava's nickname for the comedian is unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...