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...week's end. the eight-team A.F.L. already had half of its first-round draftees under contract for the 1963 season, com pared with five of 14 for the N.F.L. The biggest money fights are still to come -over college stars who are playing in post season bowl games, cannot sign binding pro contracts until after the holidays. The top prizes on the auction block are Mississippi Tackle Jim Dunaway, Alabama Center Lee Roy Jordan and Louisiana State Halfback Jerry Stovall, all first-stringers on TIME'S pro-picked All-America, and all No. 1 draft choices...
...Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead: the 34-nation Canada Cup, emblematic of world golf supremacy, at San Isidro, Argentina. Snead and Palmer took a three-stroke first-round lead, held on to beat Argentina by two strokes. - Underdog Georgia Tech: a 7-6 victory over previously unbeaten. No. 2-ranked Alabama. Tech Fullback Mike McNames intercepted a pass in the second quarter, scored two plays later; Quarterback Billy Lothridge kicked the extra point that handed Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide its first loss in 27 games. Wisconsin mowed down Illinois 35-6. needed only to defeat Minnesota...
...last June, he won the U.S. Open (TIME cover, June 29), decisively beating Arnie Palmer, himself only 33 and golf's grand master, whose well-deserved popularity should have been enough to freeze any first-year man. But then in the British Open, next month, Nicklaus shot a disastrous, not-to-be-recovered first-round 80 while Palmer was burning up the course, and golf's wise heads wondered how good the youngster really...
...Nicklaus and the rest were be wildered by Troon, Palmer was not. Wearing longjohns, his sore back swabbed with liniment, he fired a first-round 71 that left him tied for third. "I'm leaving putts hanging all over the map." he groaned as he headed for the clubhouse. And if that was the kind of sweet-sour talk old Troon liked to hear, it certainly worked...
...seeding committee, expected much else of Billie Jean Moffitt. Though she had won a handful of minor U.S. titles, the chunky, bespectacled little Californian was only 18 and had never won a major singles tournament; at Wimbledon last year, she lost out in the very first match. The seeding committee gave her a first-round bye. And then it sent her up against Australia's No. 1-seeded Margaret Smith, a big girl with a big game, virtually undefeated in the past ten months, winner of the Australian, French and Italian titles, a 4-5 favorite...