Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only two heavyweight championship fights in boxing history have ended quicker.* And none has seemed more of a mismatch. It took Liston just 2 min. 6 sec. of the first round to club Floyd Patterson into oblivion and install himself as the new king of a tarnished sport. He accomplished it without even trying. A series of deceptively mild left jabs pried Patterson out of his peekaboo crouch. Three times the ineffectual champion attempted to clinch; contemptuously Listen shoved him away. At last, Liston bounced a left hook off Patterson's head, followed it with a chopping right...
...Tommy Burns halted Irish Jem Roche in Dublin in 1 min. 28 sec., and Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in 2 min. 4 sec. in their rematch in June...
...mile, windward-leeward course. The game Aussie skipper hounded Mosbacher like a hound after a fox (cracked one spectator: "Sturrock ought to know how to spell Weatherly by now; he's seen the name on her stern enough"), but at the finish a wide 3 min. 40 sec. and half a mile of open water separated the defender from the challenger...
Having been soundly trounced by 3 min. 46 sec. in the first race, the Aussies came out for the second match in the kind of day to gladden any Sydney sailor's heart. The balmy 15-knot breeze had be come a tearing, 25-knot northwest wind; heavy swells rolled across the green Atlantic, and off to the horizon spray-laden whitecaps filled the scene. It was Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful white-hulled sloop fly in home waters off Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful...
Skimming around the first buoy, Mosbacher's lead had been reduced to two boat lengths, a bare 12 sec. By the second eight-mile mark, it was still only 14 sec. Then Gretel and Sturrock stole the day. His spinnaker ballooning firm and white, Sturrock caught a great, wind-driven wave under his stern and rode it like a surfboarder on a Pacific comber. As the Australians surged past, Mosbacher's Yanks heard a roaring war whoop booming out across the water. Weatherly tried to recover, but she snapped her spinnaker pole -and then it was too late...