Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prison camp in South Africa's Transvaal, two Italian soldiers last week fought a rousing ten-round battle for the welterweight championship of the crumbling Italian Empire. One was Gino Verdinelli, winner of the national welterweight tournament held in Rome in 1940. The other was Giovanni Manca, 1941 welterweight champion of the Italian Empire. For a purse, Italian officers had contributed ?100 (around $400) from their prison earnings. For a referee they chose a South African: popular, pint-sized Captain T. St. John Dean...
After the match, Winner (on points) Manca was offered a match with South African Welterweight Champion Lieut. Laurie Stevens, stationed at nearby Pretoria. Manca accepted, with one stipulation: half the proceeds must go to Italian prisoners of war in South Africa, half to South African prisoners in Italy...
...Louisville Hotelman J. Graham Brown's Seven Hearts, a superior mudder, winner of last month's Arkansas Derby...
...full quota of stars showed up as usual in Manhattan for the two big annual tournaments-the Masters' Individual and the Vanderbilt Cup. There was a sprinkling of players in uniform (corporal to lieut. colonel) all slightly out of practice. Average age of the entrants: about 33. The winner...
...Individual Championship, which is contested each year by 36 of the nation's best players, picked to compete by a committee. No player has ever won twice. True to tradition, the six former champions entered in last week's tournament finished far out of the running. Winner and new champion was a young War Department statistician, sharp-nosed Alvin Roth, who has played bridge for only six years...