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There was never much doubt of it back home. True, when Trevino first came out of nowhere to win his first U.S. Open in 1968, many dismissed him as a one-shot upstart. Who, after all, had ever heard of a Chicano champion???a Chicano, moreover, who had learned the game by gambling with easy marks on a Texas pitch-and-putt course? Who could believe a pro golf titlist who looked like a hacker and talked like a hustler...
...will stick his tongue out at an errant shot, coax in a putt with a burlesque-queen bump or break into an impromptu toreador waltz with an attacking bee. Lee's Fleas delight in his wisecracks (Flea: "Nice shot!" Lee: "What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion???ground balls?"). They love his catch phrases ("Black is beautiful, but brown is cute") and his apologies for cussing ("Excuse me, lady, I thought you was a tree"). Says 1969 Masters Champion George Archer: "The tour is like a big circus that pulls into town once a year...
...summer, Palmer built up his arms by wrestling tractors and mowers over the course (he had to stand up to handle the wheel); in the winter he drove balls painted bright red into the snow. At eleven he was coolly offering advice to the club champion???and having it gratefully accepted. Palmer never tired of practicing. "He'd be yelling, 'Watch me! Watch me! Watch me, Pap!'" recalls Deacon Palmer. "You'd get so sick of him you'd feel like hitting him a lick...
...Englishman. The score was 40-15. She needed only one point for the game and set. Lenglen's return seemed to fall outside the line. Miss Wills sure she had won the set, started to change courts, when the linesman?Cyril Tolley, one-time British amateur golf-champion???told her to come back...
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