Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undaunted, Louis plans to match strokes with the big shots once more: in the coveted Negro Open to be played on the Ponkapoag course in Canton, Mass, this week. "Some day," he drawled, "I'll be the golf champ...
...Yoshizawa was calculated to be more than a match for Amateur Diplomat van Mook. Muttered Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, longtime policymaker for the Japanese Navy, as the negotiations opened: "We have a right to ask the East Indies to cooperate with us ... and to ask them for the materials needed for our common prosperity and existence. . . . There is no cause for hesitation. It all depends on Japan's own determination." Minister van Mook was also determined...
When Mutual signed with ASCAP last May, it offered to ASCAP 3% of its gross receipts, but its contract gives it the privilege of scaling down this fee to match any more favorable deal rival networks might make with ASCAP. CBS was still outside the fold last week, but it seemed likely to follow NBC's suit, sign up with ASCAP at drastically reduced fees. ASCAP went to war full of steam and confidence...
...Bobby Riggs, ranked No. 2, had thrice won the Sea Bright Tournament, the first major grass-court tournament of the season. Bobby felt fine this year. His weight was up five pounds (to 140) and he had found out how to relax in the middle of a match without lowering his game. Tennis fans consider him the smartest, nearest thing to a veteran in the present crop of headliners. He doesn't hit very hard, but he hits for the openings. He has a fine, quick wrist that enables him to mask the direction of a shot until...
...beat McNeill-Ted Schroeder, National Doubles champion (with Jack Kramer) from Glendale, Calif. Schroeder, who a few years ago was good for a kid, is now much better than that. He plays a hard-driving game that will take him further than he has come. In his match with Riggs he was a slugger against a boxer. Schroeder seemed to be still tired from his match the day before with Wayne Sabin, the man who beat Parker...