Word: astroturfs
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Take the Monday night game. When I saw Hands and the Doc at 2:30, the Buffalo weather report was of paramount importance. The combination of rain and astroturf means different things in different ball parks, particularly if one club runs a lot. Then there was Simpson. He'd sprained an ankle the week before. Was he fit? "I hear he's only 50-75 per cent," Hands told me. At 3 p.m., there was no line, but Hands guessed it'd be three points and the Bills (meaning a bettor wins his bet if the Bills win by more...
...feet pounded against asphalt, not astroturf, and the roar was not from the throats of the adoring thousands who used to watch him carry a football, shoot a basketball, and hit a baseball, but from the barrel of a gun, a .357 Magnum in the hands of an off-duty Sky Marshall...
...main attempt so far has been to create a circus atmosphere. At lunch in Horn & Hardart's branch at Eighth Avenue and 58th Street in Manhattan, customers stand three deep to eat at a new "Burger in the Park" counter, complete with plastic-flower-lined paths, AstroTurf and cut-out clouds. At other outlets, rock concerts draw young late-night customers despite fear of muggings. A double-decker Horn & Hardart bus tours Manhattan free, stopping at such favorite tourist spots as the U.N. and the Empire State Building-as well as at 17 Horn & Hardarts. Meanwhile, Guterman...
...would have landed. The machine also flashes the yardage gained and the remaining distance to the pin. If the computer decides that the ball has landed in a sand trap or water hazard, there is a one-stroke penalty. Putting, however, is primitive: the player must move to an Astroturf green and aim at a real hole...
Tafayette Penn: This game, played last night on Franklin Field's astroturf, will obviously start the Ivies on their merry way. Easton vs. Philadelphia, C'mon. But on the other hand, let's look at it this way. Penn has smashed Colgate, 35-28, in a scrimmage and in return. Lafayette was equally smashed by Colgate last week, 33-14. So let's chalk it up. Seven plus 19 equals 26. The Quakers and coach Harry Gamble then get four extra points for getting Don Clune past the Penn Admission Committee -- no small task. Hence an impressive Penn opener...