Word: aced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's chances for four first places in the Eastern Intercollegiate swimming Championships came to a grinding halt yesterday when ace butterflyer Neville Hayes came down with the flu and had to be driven back to Cambridge...
...Congressman who had called him a "demagogue and conscious liar" (both were slightly nicked). A year later, his wife left him for another man. and the scandal rocked Lima. Belaúnde won a legal separation, was awarded custody of their three children-and plunged on with his Ace ion Popular. He published a book pleading for the integration of the highland Indian in the national economy. "This," he wrote, "is the great battle that still has not been fought in the conquest of Peru...
...Wheaties & Rolls. The ace of aces was Norman Manley, a long-hitting four-handicapper from Inglewood, Calif., who scored three in a month-all on par-four holes, of 330, 330 and 290 yds. Then there was Harry Poli, 56, who plays with a putter exclusively and holed out his 150-yd. tee shot last June at the Salem, Mass., Municipal Golf Course. At Mission Hills Golf Club in Northbrook, Ill., members are still shaking their heads over the golfer who topped his drive on the 15th tee and rolled it into the cup, 175 yds. away...
Beyond Belief. When a pro aces, it's kind of ho-hum. The world-record holder of holes in one, Art Wall has 35 aces to his credit after 16 years on the tour-and has yet to make a dime out of any of them. "I don't even talk about it," he says morosely. Neither does Jerry Krueger, a California pro, who got his fourth in last week's Bob Hope Desert Classic. The trouble was that he shot it on the seventh hole in the third round. The Chrysler people were offering a convertible...
...told, there have been 82 aces on the pro tour in the last five years, which means that the odds on some golfer's holing out his tee shot in any P.G.A. tournament are only about 2½ to 1. Lloyd's of London should have looked up the odds when they insured a $50,000 hole-in-one prize for the Palm Springs Golf Classic. In 1960, the tournament sponsors paid a premium of $4,500, and Joe Campbell scored an ace. In 1961, Lloyd's hiked it to $13,500, and Don January scored...