Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law with Internet Guide and Glossary
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billiards Scoring is in points. 108-111 pounds — Junior Fly- Use a match summary. Example: weight, WBA, IBF; light flyweight, Minnesota Fats, St. Paul, Minn., def. Pool WBC. Hall Duke, 150-141. 112-117 pounds — Flyweight, bobsledding, luge Scoring WBA, WBC, IBF. is in minutes, seconds and tenths 115 pounds – Super Flyweight, of a second. Extend to hun- WBC dredths if available. 118-121 pounds — Ban- Identify events as two-man, tamweight, WBA, WBC, IBF. four-man, men’s luge, women’s 122-125 pounds — Junior luge. featherweight, WBA, IBF, super Use a basic summary. Exam- bantamweight, WBC. ple: 126-129 pounds — Feather- Two-man — 1, Jim Smith and Dick Jones, Alaska Sledders, 4:20.77.2, Tom Winner and Joe weight, WBA, WBC, IBF. Finisher, Mountaineers, 4:31.14.3, etc. 130-134 pounds — Junior lightweight, WBA, IBF; super bowl games Capitalize featherweight, WBC. them: Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, 135-139 pounds — Light- Rose Bowl, etc. weight, WBA, WBC, IBF. 140-146 pounds — Junior bowling Scoring systems welterweight, WBA, IBF; super use both total points and won- lightweight, WBC. lost records. Use the basic summary format 147-153 pounds — Welter- in paragraph form. Note that a weight, WBA, WBC, IBF. comma is used in giving pinfalls 154-159 pounds — Junior of more than 999. middleweight, WBA, IBF; super Examples: welterweight, WBC. ST. LOUIS (AP) — Second-round leaders and 160-174 pounds — Mid- their total pinfalls in the $100,000 Professional Bowlers Association tournament: dleweight, WBA, WBC. 1. Bill Spigner, Hamden, Conn., 2,820. 160-164 pounds — Mid- 2. Gary Dickinson, Fort Worth, Texas, 2,759. 3. etc. dleweight, IBF. ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The 24 match play 168 pounds — Super mid- finalists with their won-lost records and total dleweight, WBC,IBF. pinfall Thursday night after tour rounds — 26 games — of the $65,000 Alameda Open bowling 175-194 pounds — Light tournament: heavyweight, WBA, WBC, IBF. 1. Jay Robinson, Los Angeles, 5-3, 5,937. 2. Butch Soper, Huntington Beach, Calif., 3-5, 190 pounds — Junior heavy- 5,932. weight, WBA; cruiserweight, 3. etc. WBC, IBF. boxing The three major Over 190 pounds — Heavy- sanctioning bodies for profession- weight, WBA, WBC, IBF. al boxing are the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Some other terms: Council and the International Boxing Federation. kidney punch A punch to an opponent’s kidney when the Weight classes and titles by puncher has only one hand free. organization: An illegal punch. If the puncher 105 pounds – Mini Flyweight, has both hands free, a punch to IBF; Strawweight, WBC the opponent’s kidney is legal.