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European featherweight champ Ray Famechon of France, won a unanimous ten-round decision over Glen Flanagan in Madison Square Garden last night. The fight marked the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Garden...
...Chicago, warming up for his 44th year of tournament play, Billiard Champ Willie Hoppe chalked a cue and mused: "At 63 I know I'm not getting any better. All I can do is hold my own, but my own is still good enough...
When Cincinnati's home-town boy, World Heavyweight Champ Ezzard Charles, 29, returned for a civic welcome, fans and friends were ready with a new crown of golden chrysanthemums. Said Charles, flashing a white smile, "It's swell to be back and thanks for everything...
Festooned with colored lights and filled with little tables & chairs, the ordinarily bare parade ground of Port-au-Prince's broad Champs-de-Mars wore the air of a fête champêtre. While bands blared meringues through the soft tropical night, 15,000 happy Haitians downed free rice, beans, griots (fried pork), and heady island rum. Nearby cinemas and bars offered free movies and more free drinks. From time to time loudspeakers broadcast polite speeches by politicians suggesting that the picnickers might vote for Colonel Paul Magloire for President...
...elbows high, and figures confidently that he can hit all pitchers and all pitches equally well. Sometimes, he admits, "a baseball is hard to hit. There's a lot of luck in it." Luck or not, Ted Williams' substitute* seemed likely to be the 1950 batting champ of the American League...