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After the Harvard women's tennis team began its fall season with an impressive 7-2 victory over Boston University at the Beren and Palmer Dixon Courts yesterday, Crimson Coach Ed Krass had some suprising observations...
There seems to have been golf before Dwight Eisenhower, Bobby Jones, Bob Hope and Arnold Palmer, though in terms of general popularity, this was the sport's first foursome, and Palmer its original athlete. "Where Arnold changed the game," Player thinks, "was the way he looked at people. It made them look at golf." Player was a hole ahead of Palmer and standing beside the third green when Arnold bounced his first five-iron into the cup. As Palmer said later, "I saw him standing there. I thought for a moment. I wanted to hit a good one." Another...
...Palmer has sprayed triumphant shots all over the globe. A number of plaques commemorate them: at Royal Birkdale in England, where a particular six-iron took the British Open; at Cherry Hills near Denver, where they told him he was too far behind in the U.S. Open, so he drove the first green, a par four, and won. A monument at Rancho Park records the 12 he made on a single hole in the Los Angeles Open. That's the first one he mentions. Once in Paris, Palmer drove a ball off the Eiffel Tower and hit a bus. "Close...
...next day the Chrysler Cup began in earnest. It is sort of an old fogy's Ryder Cup pitting the Yanks against the world. Palmer and Gene Littler were paired against Player and New Zealander Bob Charles. The course buzzed with hole-in-one fables. The P.G.A. Tour believed Palmer's feat to be unique, though Chi Chi Rodriguez claimed as many as five in six weeks. Miller Barber said, "Oh sure, I've won four or five automobiles over the years." Billy Casper was undecided whether his best was in Okinawa, where all Japan carried...
...Palmer strained over his third try. "There's $50,000 at stake in this tournament," thought Player. "Why do I want him to knock it in?" Citing "sentiment," Palmer stayed with the five iron, though the day called for a six. He knocked the ball over the green, grimaced and then smiled. "I didn't want to leave it short," he said...