Word: championship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tennis is in a poor state. With the single exception of Cincinnati's crew-cut Tony Trabert, who turned pro in 1955, the U.S. has not produced a tennis star of consistent world championship caliber since Pancho Gonzales began to play for pay in 1949. Furthermore, the raids of Pro Promoter Jack Kramer on Australia's crack performers have lopped off amateur stars as fast as they emerged. Three years ago an erratic, second-string southpaw named Neale Fraser was ranked well behind Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, was later overshadowed by Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper...
...coiling into a figure-eight windup and uncoiling curves, change-ups and fastballs, Bertha Ragan, 35, had again showed she was the greatest pitcher in women's softball by throwing four shutouts (including one no-hitter) to lead her Raybestos Brakettes of Stratford, Conn, to their second successive championship on their home field in the 26th World Softball tournament...
...classic pug, a jug-eared middleweight with a flat, stolid face, the thick torso and bulging shoulders of a heavyweight. Even so, Utah's Gene Fullmer, 28, was no better than an 8-5 underdog for last week's National Boxing Association middleweight championship fight* in San Francisco. For Fullmer's opponent was the toughest man in the business at the bloody art of toe-to-toe brawling; in 74 fights New York State's hatchet-faced, knobby-kneed Carmen Basilio, 32, had never once been knocked out. Only Basilio seemed to have...
...Rearing back and firing like a major leaguer, 13-year-old Art Deras (5 ft. 8 in., 136 Ibs.) struck out 14 to lead his team from Hamtramck, Mich, to a 12-0 rout of Auburn, Calif., and the Little League world championship at Williamsport...
...Power-swinging Barbara Mclntire, 24, real-estate agent from Lake Park, Fla., trounced Joanne Goodwin, 23, of Haverhill, Mass., four-and-three, to win the U.S. women's amateur golf championship at Washington's sun-baked Congressional Country Club...