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Derailed. In Casper. Wyo., a master of ceremonies at a state trucking association meeting was roundly booed when he asked members to join him in a rollicking chorus of I've Been Working on the Railroad...
...BILLY CASPER, 28, the son of a San Diego plasterer, has developed the sharpest short game of the circuit, but is less than zealous about practicing with woods and long irons: "putting and chipping are more fun." Casper has weight problems (5 ft. 11 in., 205 Ibs.), stays relaxed on the course by playing swiftly while rivals grow tense as they brood over shots. Casper's accurate, conservative brand of golf last year won him the U.S. Open...
...leather grips of his clubs. BUt Rosburg (5 ft. 11 in., 185 Ibs.), a second baseman at Stanford in his college days, nonetheless has power off the tee and a pool shark's touch on the green. Last year he won the P.G.A., finished a stroke behind Winner Casper in the Open. Rosburg is now grimly trying to conquer a problem even more serious than his physical ailments: an explosive temper that usually drives him into one miserable round per tournament...
...golfer, without a family in tow, must spend about $12,000 a year. To get by, many a young golfer sells shares of himself to backers who pay him around $200 a week, take back most of his earnings for the first few years. One notably sound investment: Billy Casper, who got an allowance totaling about $24,000 during a two-year period, paid a profit...
...that point, his tournament total of 212 was only one better than that of a five-man pack on his heels: Ben Hogan, beginning to weary ("Every time I stand over the ball I feel like the hole is filled with my corpuscles"), Finsterwald, Venturi, Casper and Julius Boros...