Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wimbledon, besides winning the singles, Kramer teamed with Hollywood's Bob Falkenburg to win the men's doubles. Both the women's singles and doubles (with Queen Mary and Prime Minister Attlee watching in the stands) were all-American finals too. Singles winner: San Francisco's Margaret Osborne, over Miami's Doris Hart, 6-2, 6-4. In the doubles, Doris Hart and Mrs. Patricia Canning Todd beat the defending champions, Miss Osborne and Louise Brough...
...Henry Cotton took a second-round 78 and stormed off the green in a huff. One London paper consoled its readers: "For a welcome change, the Americans are not in the van." In fact, most topflight U.S. pros, including Defending Champion Sam Snead, did not even show up.* The winner: jaunty little Ulsterite Fred Daly of Belfast, who grinned and said: "It's lucky to be Irish...
...served by restaurants for not more than $1. Six thousand plain and fancy recipes (including one from a wag who suggested "grilled gophers fried in Turner Valley oil with Alberta gas over a mountain range") swamped contest headquarters. Last week in Edmonton, the judges selected a plain-sounding winner...
...Seattle, Coach Tom Bolles' crack Harvard, crew rowed the 2,000-meter Olympic distance in a record 5 min. 49 sec. In doing so, Harvard, which always passes up Poughkeepsie, defeated nine of the eleven crews which raced at Poughkeepsie a fortnight ago. Navy, the Poughkeepsie winner, did not show up at Seattle, but the Harvard crew had already beaten Navy this season, was thus apparently the crew of the year...
Oldtimers could properly say that Assault had overtaken the great Whirlaway with inflated money, for Whirlaway had run in a day when purses were much skimpier than Assault's. But Assault, winner of the Big Three in 1946 (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) and of every race he had entered this year, was still a horse with a future: he is only a four-year-old, and full of run. Before he is retired to stud next year on Robert Kleberg's King Ranch nursery at Lexington, Ky., he may well have earned more than...