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Golf also has its risks, although these are not as obvious as in contact sports which fling equipment and bodies back and forth under the rules of the game. Fat golfers occasionally suffer heart attacks or heat prostration out on the links, and some Florida players have been struck by lightning. During the spring trip. Baker had to hit a shot near a water hazard. As he swung at the ball, he noticed that an eight-foot alligator lay within spitting distance Obstacles like these are considered part of the game--golfers don't give up and go home just...
...fields of western Wisconsin last week, Jim Lemanski, 44, and his wife Martha, 43, watched their 330-acre farm near Fennimore being sold at auction. They had left Madison, where he had been an appliance salesman, less than four years ago, going $380,000 into debt to take a fling at farming with hogs, cattle and corn. But prices fell, his 10% loans came up for renewal at 20%, and Lemanski lost $10,000 on corn alone last year. Overall, his try at farming cost him $100,000. "Numbers like that take a lot of the fun out of farming...
...game, Hageman says, consists of "a bunch of people sitting round a table drinking beer, and trying to fling quarters into the mugs. When someone gets a quarter into a beer, he can either drink it or choose someone else who has to. The person elected must chug the beer and catch the quarter in his teeth...
...like Walesa would never have suited Carlyle's elitist view of greatness. Walesa is a completely different kind of hero: a common man who has taken his fling at changing history not by leading governments, winning great battles or writing books, but by embodying the hopes, faith, courage, even the foibles, of the vast majority of his countrymen...
Pursued by a trio of Cadets, Cuccia picked up the bouncing ball, transferred it to his left hand and hit Scheper, cutting to the outside nine yards upfield, with a southpaw fling. Halfback Jim Acheson then bolted through a hole to the left of center John Francis for a first down...