Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forced on account of darkness to stop at 4-4 in the third set Monday, they played the match over again yesterday. After tying the score in the last set 5-5, Jenkins finally managed to outdistance his opponent...
...removing Lombardo, President Cárdenas implemented General Avila Camacho's promise to rid Mexican politics of Communist domination. Avila Camacho had already matched General Almazán's other claims to conservatism by guaranteeing security to both Mexican and foreign investors, announcing himself a good Catholic. He was now in a position to match Almazán's program point for point, could offer the further inducement of accomplishing it without revolution...
...trounced by top-rank exhibition pros in the annual championship tournament. U. S. fans look with lacklustre eye on the national professional tournament because the top-rank exhibition pros, razor-keen after a season of barnstorming, always breeze through to the final-and watching the exhibitionists play a match is like watching the exhibitionists play an exhibition...
...medal round was all California's. The three hot-shots who broke 80 were all natives: San Francisco's buxom Dorothy Traung, Burlingame's Bunny Fergus Russ, Long Beach's Betty Hicks. Though these front runners faltered in the early rounds of match play, five Californians were still there among the eight quarter-finalists; and two of them among the four semifinalists...
Sturdy, stolid Betty Jameson had never before played at Pebble Beach. But not even the sea lions put her off. In the final, before a gallery of over 1,000 that included wistful onetime Champion Patty Berg (now a professional), she ended the match on the 31st green, 6 & 5, for her second U. S. championship...