Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems content to let Jack take home the trophies as long as he takes home the jack. The only local tournament last week was something called the Fig Garden Village Open, and Jack and Arnie flew off to Paris to defend the honor of the U.S. in the Canada Cup-a kind of General Assembly of golf that matched two-man teams from 33 nations...
...apparently. On the final day he rattled off four birdies in five holes. The par-four sixth hole presented a problem when his second shot caught a trap 70 ft. from the pin. So he pulled out his sand wedge, swung-and blasted the ball straight into the cup. At that, the Duke of Windsor, watching from the edge of the green, tumbled straight off his shooting stick. "Greatest shot I ever saw," he gasped. Arnie Palmer yanked his ailing game together to fire a 34 and ensure the U.S. team a victory that was worth $1,000 to each...
What might have been just one more dreary cup of bitter British literary tea is laced with George's rum ruminations on himself and his family's past. In the space it takes many a modern writer just to clear his throat, Scott sketches in a man's whole lifetime and draws in detail a haunting character-part bounder, part victim, part humble appraiser of how badly he has played the hand that life has chosen to deal him. Blessed or not, Scott seems to say, the poor in spirit will never inherit the earth. But, possessed...
...Kelso: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup, for the fourth year in a row, by four lazy lengths at Aqueduct. Cutting his own pace ("I couldn't control him," admitted Jockey Milo Valenzuela), the great gelding galloped to his eighth straight stakes victory, ran his lifetime earnings to $1,556,702, sewed up Horse of the Year honors for an unprecedented fourth straight year...
...Dean Prentice, who is now a Bruin. However, he should team up well with Goyette as his center. If Camille Henry can continue to score goals and Doug Harvey can hold together the shaky defense for another year, the Rangers should have an excellent chance to return to Stanley Cup competition...