Word: prematch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turbulent success, the champ was a closemouthed subject for Reporter Serrell Hillman, dropped her guard only when Hillman spent a week at her side, trailed her to Chicago for the Clay Courts championship and scoured the suburbs for a supply of the pure honey she takes for prematch energy. Althea eventually gave Hillman the inside story of the life and hard times of a Negro tennis champion. See SPORT, That Gibson Girl...
Time to Retire? The bad news reached England around 3 a.m. The first reactions conditioned by weeks of prematch gibes at unfair Yankee boxing rules and prejudiced officials, added up to "most peculiar." Next day's headlines proclaimed: "Turpin says: 'I could have fought on!'" But later, when Britons took a hard look at the fight movies, the tune quickly changed to a chorus of: "I say the referee was justified...
Defending Champion Sammy Snead of West Virginia and U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff of Tennessee were the prematch favorites. Bantam Ben Hogan and breezy Jimmy Demaret, both Texans, were the second choices. Hogan, patiently reconstructing his game after his 1949 auto accident, was unmistakably the sentimental favorite. His comeback had backfired last winter, but he had been toiling over the Augusta course for a week, determined to win the one major championship that had eluded him all through his career...