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After losing the first set in a play-off game, 6-7, Brock broke Massey's game in the second, 7-5, and mopped up in the third set, 6-1, "Brock finally came of age with this match," coach Jack Barnaby said. "He wouldn't have won it last year, he wouldn't have won it last week, but he was right there when we needed him the most...
...encouraging as the team had hoped. Both Washauer and Dave Fish were off their game. Washauer lost to Chris Warner, 6-4 and 7-6. Under a rule in effect for the first time this year, a 6-6 tie is resolved by a best out of nine point play-off. Warner took five out of the first eight...
...first doubles Cavanagh and Fish were up 6-0, 5-2, but ended up losing the second set, 6-7. They came back to take the third, 6-2. Barnett and Peter Briggs won their first set in a play-off, but from then on it was all Williams, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2. Washauer and Tom Loring won easily...
...into the gallery, causing something of a stir. But the closing curtain and encore went to an equally renowned performer: Arnold Palmer. In the kind of cliffhanging finish for which he is famous, Palmer coolly rammed home an 18-ft. putt on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off last week to defeat Ray Floyd and pick up his first tour victory in 14 months...
...dynasty. At 22, Orr is just one of a phalanx of young skaters with their best playing years still ahead of them. The flamboyant, mop-topped Sanderson, for example, at 23, is already one of the best centers in the league. He spells Phil Esposito, 28, who set two play-off records this year with 13 goals and a total of 27 points. They are backed by such elder skatesmen as John Bucyk, 35, and Johnny McKenzie, 32, who with Center Fred Stanfield, 26, scored a total of 53 points in the playoffs, an N.H.L. record for a line. Immediately...