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...sports that pushes an athlete or coach to "give it one more try?" It can't just be the money, especially for superstars living in a world of endorsements and acting careers. It's got to be something more, so much more that we cannot empathize with a Hal Greer or a Bob Gibson hobbling and wheezing their former glories into anti-climax...
Affectionately referred to by the team as the Ice Cream Relays, the race assumed a friendly intrasquad air rather than the competitive aura of a dual meet. The winners, John Bruce, Craig Hardin, Dick Greer, and Paco Canales, each earned a quart of ice cream from the coach for their efforts...
...team's strong performance, like the glorious autumn foliage surrounding the field, was a beautiful but short-lived phenomenon, however. It lasted only 43 minutes and 56 seconds, when Allan Marshall spoiled the fun with Princeton's first goal of the day. Marshall maneuvered past Matt Bowyer and Boyce Greer with some quick footwork around the 18-yard line, and then sailed a shot across the goal and into the upper left corner...
Died. Michael Greer, 60, fashionable interior decorator (for Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper); of strangulation; in Manhattan. At week's end police were searching Manhattan's gay community for clues to his murderer. Greer, an admitted homosexual, was reportedly seen at a gay leather bar hours before his death...
...other action yesterday, Dianne Fromholtz, opening-round ouster of top-seeded Chris Evert, continued in her role as the Cinderella entry of the tournament when she outslugged Greer Stevens in straight sets...