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...close 6-3 decision over Navy. But Page has been collecting his individual laurels, Palmer beat Briggs in the quarterfinals of the University Club Tournament last month and then beat teammate Elliot Berry for the championship. Last weekend Page finished second in the White Tournament at the Merion Cricket Club, beaten in the finals by Sam Howe, the nation's number-two amateur...
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...