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Terry Robinson, the Crimson's number four player, got a first-round bye and lost his second round match to Delbert Fuller...
...Desert. "Why don't they just hold this tournament in the Sahara Desert?" groused one pro, when the temperature on the 7,046-yd. Dallas Athletic Club course soared to 110°. Three golfers quit midway through the second round because of heat exhaustion. Arnold Palmer shot a first-round 74, and moaned that he could not putt on the club's "awful" greens. Australia's Bruce Crampton complained bitterly about the noise of Palmer's gallery, "standing around chewing sandwiches." South Africa's tense Gary Player, the defending P.G.A. champion, never got within seven...
...hard way. The 120-man field included Palmer, Nicklaus and Phil Rodgers, 25, an ex-marine who attacked St. Annes as if he were storming Iwo. Palmer played himself out of contention with a first-round 76, but after 36 holes, Charles trailed Rodgers by five strokes, Nicklaus by two. In the third round, Charles shot a record 66 -four under par, followed it up with a 71 that left him deadlocked with Rodgers at 277, one stroke ahead of Runner-up Nicklaus...
...Cassius is no bum, he is no pugilistic patrician, either. After his narrow first-round recovery he was shaken again in rounds four and seven. Clay's offense was wild and ineffective on the inside and even the few solid punches that Jones couldn't deflect did little damage to the small Harlem heavyweight. Only in round three did Clay connect with a series of sharp jabs and combinations...
...sure to get a crack at the title held by Floyd Patterson. Then Machen had one dreadful fight. Traveling to Sweden, he took on little-known Ingemar Johansson, was standing idly in mid-ring when Johansson unloaded his "toonder and lightning" right hand and flattened Machen with a flash first-round knockout...