Word: merion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breaking records is nothing new for Nicklaus, 27. When he was only 20, he went through the World Amateur Team championships at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa., in 269-the lowest score ever recorded by an amateur in major competition. Two years ago, he smashed the Masters record with a 17-under-par 271. He set pro golf's alltime official money-winning mark with $140,752 in 1965, and he is one of only four golfers (Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan and Gary Player are the others) who have won all of golfs top four tournaments...
...AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). The final rounds, from the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore...
JOHN H. McGiNN General Electric Co. Merion Station...
...each other in the finals of the National Singles championship. The favorite in private betting (at 5 to 3) was Samuel Purdy Howe III, 27, a Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School and had never seen a squash court until he went to Harvard five years ago on a scholarship. Niederhoffer was confidently offering odds...
...source of needed revenue. In Minneapolis, for example, the city assessor is trying to get $1,120 in back taxes from a bowling alley operated by a Roman Catholic parish. After the threat of a court fight, the American Baptist Convention recently agreed to pay Upper Merion township, Pennsylvania, $18,000 a year in assessments on its property there...