Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years between were relatively drab for Boros. Big, placid and pleasant, he has long been one of pro golfs sturdy citizens, playing a good but unspectacular game. He went home with $37,032 in 1952, the first time he won the Open (sportswriters called it a fluke), and took $63,121 in 1955. But he made only $5,595 in 1953, $5,358 in 1956, and in 13 years on the tour he won only nine tournaments. As he got older, it began to look as if he might not win another. His shoulders ached from bursitis; tendon trouble swelled...
...said. "You lose about 1/10 second on cinders because your spikes dig in." As he sliced through the tape 5 ft. ahead of his closest pursuer, astonished officials huddled and checked their watches. Then they announced his time: 9.1 sec.-a new world record. To prove it was no fluke, he ran another 9.1, winning the finals-but that didn't count, because he had a favoring wind. "Aw shucks," said Bob Hayes. "I was shooting for 9 seconds flat...
...fluke shot off the stick of an opposing defenseman handed the Crimson hockey team its first goal of the evening at Watson rink last night. But it was the five legitimate markers added later that beat the Dartmouth Indians 6 to 3 and gave the Varsity undisputed possession of the League lead. The icemen from Hanover never seriously threatened the powerful Crimson and finished the contest just a little deeper in the Ivy cellar with an 0-5 record...
Patterson's fluke goal came at 5:35 of the first period and was followed by a hard Howell slap-shot at the 17 minute mark. The tally gave coach Cooney Weiland's team a two goal margin it never relinquished...
...time, Niederhoffer came up with his best comeback to take the third game. The Harvard junior won the next two games and the mach 15-10, 15-10; in the end, the Harvard alumnus bowed his head to him, indicting that the victory was no fluke...