Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...half during the semi-final match for the West Sussex Polo Cup, the Royal Navy's Admiral Earl Mountbatten and his nephew Prince Philip took time out to chat with Countess Mountbatten (see cut). Final score: Beechwood 3½, Royal Navy 1, with Philip scoring the navy's one & only goal...
...tennis fans soon found out about big (6 ft. 2 in.), lean (180 Ibs.) Ken McGregor, 21, who lost to Teammate Sedgman in the final of the Australian championship this year. Later, in the French championships, he was put out early by the U.S.'s tenth-ranking Vic Seixas. At Wimbledon, Czech Jaroslav Drobny knocked him off in the fourth round. In a Davis Cup interzone mat^h this summer, Mexico's Gustavo Palafox defeated him. Nonetheless, last week, as the Aussies made their fourth reach for the big cup since V-J day, Team Captain Harry Hopman...
Team winner as the games ended this week: Russia, with 112 points. Runner-up: Britain, with 108. The final event: the 400-meter relay. Russia...
Stranahan's opponent in the final round was a 24-year-old Italian immigrant's son named Salvatore ("Sam") Urzetta. Sam had achieved a small measure of fame as a basketball player with St. Bonaventure last year; he was the U.S. free-throw champion. As a golfer, Sam was also pretty good around his home town of Rochester, N.Y. He had won the New York State Amateur Championship in 1948, and last year, when the U.S. Amateur was played in Rochester, he gained the third round before an admiring flock of locals. But nationally, he was a nonentity...
...Longest final in the so-year history of the tournament. Old record: 38 holes, in 1923, when Max Marston defeated Jess Sweetser...