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Miller, the low amateur in this year's U.S. Open, defeated England's Peter McEvoy two up. Fought and Heafner, the son of former touring pro Clayton Heafner, both won their matches four and three. Simpson, who won back-to-back NCAA golf crowns while playing for USC, closed out former Scottish Amateur Champion Gordon Murray seven...
With the victory, the Ivy League champions became the first team to take three titles and the first team to win back-to-back crowns since the NCAA held its first tournament in 1971. Back in the days when the champion was selected on the basis of regular season records, Navy won eight straight titles starting in 1960, sharing the crown twice, but winning five straight outright starting...
...quintet of Crimson golfers spent a long weekend on the road playing the two most illustrious collegiate golf tournaments in the Northeast back-to-back. On Friday, the linksmen failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament, finishing a fading fourth in the 36-hole NCAA New England Qualifying event held at the Pleasant Valley Country Club. At least a measure of solace was gained over the weekend when the squad finished an upbeat eighth in the Easterns, a tournament that attracts golfing powerhouses from Delaware to New York...
...self-imposed 500-mile recruiting limit and still field a 26-1 team. Traditional powerhouses such as U.C.L.A., North Carolina and Kentucky made the top 20, but so did newcomers Detroit, North Carolina-Charlotte, Utah and Arkansas. Back in the fold are such born-agains as San Francisco, back-to-back national champions during the Bill Russell era, and Holy Cross, which has not been in the N.C.A.A. tournament since Tom Heinsohn departed...
...spread through the economy in recent weeks. Public fears of runaway prices have been stirred by the recent leap in fuel, food and other living costs caused by the winter's bitter cold and crop-killing drought in the West. Businessmen and investors also worry about the back-to-back budget deficits (totaling $125 billion this year and in fiscal 1978) that President Carter has estimated as one result of his program to stimulate the economy. Irwin L. Kellner, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, fears a return to consistent double-digit inflation before...